Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal by Disco Network
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal by Disco Network

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal

From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the...
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Author: Disco Network
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Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal by Disco Network

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal

$41.43
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal by Disco Network

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal

$41.43
Author: Disco Network
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.

This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an especially powerful mode--particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no--people of color and disabled people have long navigated the space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies. Technoskepticism relates some of these stories to reveal the possibilities skepticism can create.

The case for technoskepticism unfolds across three sections: the first focused on disability, the creative use of wellness apps, and the desire for diagnosis; the second on digital nostalgia and home for Black and Asian users who produced communities online before home pages gave way to profiles; and the third focused on the violence inherent in A.I.-generated Black bodies and the possibilities for Black style in the age of A.I. Acknowledging how the urge to refuse new technologies emerges from specific racialized histories, the authors also emphasize how care can look like an exuberant embrace of the new.



Author: Disco Network
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.98w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781503640634

About the Author
The DISCO Network (Digital Inquiry Speculation Collaboration Optimism Network) is an intergenerational collective of researchers, artists, technologists, policymakers, and practitioners working together to challenge digital social and racial inequalities. Participants include David Adelman, Andr? Brock, Aaron Dial, Stephanie Dinkins, Rayvon Fouch?, Huan He, Jeff Nagy, Lisa Nakamura, Catherine Knight Steele, Rianna Walcott, Josie Williams, Kevin Winstead, M. Remi Yergeau, and Lida Zeitlin-Wu.
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