Stop the machines / Mauro Lubrano

Public ISBD Titre : Stop the machines : The rise of anti-technology extremism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mauro Lubrano, Auteur Editeur : Polity Année de publication : 2025 Importance : 194 p Note générale : 01.03 LUB Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire  Technologies de l'information  Alternatives Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie col/num Résumé : As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of anti-technology violence across the globe. He identifies three main groups fuelling such resistance: insurrectionary anarchists, eco-extremists, and eco-fascists. Exploring the justifications that underlie the opposition to technology and the strategies employed to ‘stop the machines’, he shows how anti-tech extremism has emerged as a reaction to the Anthropocene – an attempt to undo the epoch of human domination. The intellectual flexibility of this ideology lends itself to different causes, from the class struggle against the techno-elites to the defence of nature and white supremacy. With fears about the risks of artificial intelligence mounting and the world beset by serious ‘polycrises’, what is currently a fragmented, fringe phenomenon holds the potential for dramatic escalation. Stop the machines : The rise of anti-technology extremism [texte imprimé] / Mauro Lubrano, Auteur . - UK : Polity, 2025 . - 194 p. 01.03 LUB Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire  Technologies de l'information  Alternatives Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie col/num Résumé : As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of anti-technology violence across the globe. He identifies three main groups fuelling such resistance: insurrectionary anarchists, eco-extremists, and eco-fascists. Exploring the justifications that underlie the opposition to technology and the strategies employed to ‘stop the machines’, he shows how anti-tech extremism has emerged as a reaction to the Anthropocene – an attempt to undo the epoch of human domination. The intellectual flexibility of this ideology lends itself to different causes, from the class struggle against the techno-elites to the defence of nature and white supremacy. With fears about the risks of artificial intelligence mounting and the world beset by serious ‘polycrises’, what is currently a fragmented, fringe phenomenon holds the potential for dramatic escalation.

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