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Caro had recently moved back to Cluj to be closer to her ­family while in the midst of finishing her dissertation on interwar feminist ­labor histories. Struggling to pay her expenses, she had managed to land a night shift job at an Office call center. She thought it was just some regular tech outs…

Today, the notion of hacking has had its own blood sucked through Western liberalism, with corporate hackathons a mainstay of corporate technoculture.56 Most, if not all, of the so-­called hackathons that I have attended in Romania still resemble Penn’s 1995 slideshow edifying the merits of capital…

Thus, in one fell swoop, he erased the entire history of Felix and Romanian computer production, positioning the country as technologically retrograde due to its anticapitalist alterity.

Strategically, ­these dystopic ai conversations also obviate that it continues to be corporations rather than magical machines amassing technocapitalist power and reanimating decades-­old computing techniques. In the words of Meredith Whittaker and Lucy Suchman, “The term ‘artificial intelligence’ …

As in prior eras, technocapitalist appropriation of socialist space has not been met without dissent. In 2014, for instance, what became known as the “Dropbox Dudes” video went viral. Titled “Mission Playground Is Not For Sale,” the homemade YouTube clip features a group of white Airbnb and Dropbox…