Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
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Thomas Dekeyser
As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)
Pope Leo XIV's critiques of AI remind me of the 12th C Pope Innocent III who saw in tech "all things vanity[...]as if man’s skill could surpass the art of his Creator.” Even if Leo's cynicism is sharper, anti-tech again becomes a means of extending Christian Humanism.
(excerpt from Techno-Negative)
Thomas Dekeyser's TECHNO-NEGATIVE (www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...) has only been out a couple months but it's crossed over into the culture in ways few scholarly books do, and rarely so quickly. Reviews & discussion of the book in Vox, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine...
Vacancy: Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography
SoGE, in association with @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School: https://bit.ly/3PUDVG7 #academicsky
Thomas Dekeyser
Thomas Dekeyser
The School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), in association with Mansfield College, seeks an outstanding Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography to provide cover during Professor Derek McCormack’s period as Head of School.
