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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…

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…

The dot-­com boom busted shortly ­after it began due to overconfidence and failed investment strategies (perhaps something akin to the mass tech layoffs transpiring at the time of this writing in 2023). While the crash led to a decrease in rental and home prices in the Bay Area, it also impelled th…

There w ere also antiwar movements that specifically mobilized against Silicon Valley nuclear technologies. Student movements across the country mean- while found targets in military-­industrial labs on their college campuses, such as the Applied Electronics Laboratory at Stanford.64 ­There was als…