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Against Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism – History is What’s Happening (2026)

Selected texts on technology, techno-fantasy and its harm

In reverse chronology

 

After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application, by Justin Chandler (2026)

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, by Ted Chiang (2026)

Protesters oppose new data centres in Vancouver, by The North Star (2026)

Got Questions About AI Data Centres in Vancouver? Here Are Answers, by Isaac Phan Nay (2026)

Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver, by CBC News (2026)

The People vs. AI, by Benedict Evans & Andrew R. Chow (2026)

The Mythology Of Conscious AI, by Anil Seth (2026)

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul, by Will Bunch (2026)

Mvskoke Tech Park plan crashes, by Braden Harper (2025)

Digital Eugenics and the Extinction of Humanity, by Émile P. Torres (2025)

Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism, by Anil K. Seth (2025)

Ghost in a Rhetorical Machine: Against the Reification of Artificial Intelligence, by Zhanpei Fang (2024)

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, by Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres (2024)

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web, by Ted Chiang (2023)

Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics, by Émile P. Torres (2023)

Transhumanism is Eugenics for Educated White Liberals, by Mich Ciurria (2023)

Ghost in the Cloud: Transhumanism’s simulation theology, by Meghan O’Gieblyn (2017)

The Lifecycle of Software Objects, by Ted Chiang (2010)


Protest against data centres, Vancouver (MST territory), BC, May 23, 2026




Critiques of technology (or its use) more generally

 

Cyberpunk and Technology, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1992)

From Riot to Insurrection, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1988)

The Armed Wing of Science, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (1987)

Against Nuclear Technology, by Pierleone Porcu (1986/2015)

Robotization: A Second Industrial Revolution, by John Mohawk (1983)

How We See It, by the Vancouver Five (1983)

On ‘Fifth Estate’, Anarchism, Technology & Bookchin, by Marcus Graham (1981)

Progress and Nuclear Power: The Destruction of the Continent and Its Peoples, by Fredy Perlman (1979)

The Butlerian Jihad of Dune (1965), from Wikipedia

Our Synthetic Environment, by Murray Bookchin (1962)

Stop the Bomb, by Murray Bookchin (1954)

Mankind and the State, by Marcus Graham (1946)

The Tyranny of the Clock, by George Woodcock (1944)

What Ought to be the Anarchist Attitude Towards the Machine?, by Marcus Graham (1934)

Man’s Liberation, by Marcus Graham (1925)

Manufacturing Psychology, from Industrial Worker (1910)

Steam, the Tyrant, by Philo Palhomo (1901)

Darwin Among the Machines, by Samuel Butler (1863)


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