Technoskepticism

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, Andre Brock, Aaron Dial, Stephanie Dinkins, Rayvon Fouche, Huan He, Jeff Nagy, Lisa Nakamura, Catherine Knight Steele, Rianna Walcott, Josie Williams, Kevin Winstead, M. Remi Yergeau, and Lida Zeitlin-Wu.

Introduction: Possibilities 1. Desiring Diagnosis 2. Searching for Digital Wellness 3. Nostalgia Gone to Bits 4. The Longing for Home: Nostalgia for Digital Platforms 5. Blackness and AI 6. Playing with Black Style: ChatGPT and Black Aesthetics Conclusion: Refusal Coda: Aftercare About the DISCO Network Notes Index

"Do you struggle with your technologies, feeling both disgust and desire as you stroke your devices? Then this is the book for you. Full of wit and insight, Technoskepticism may be the cure for what ails you." -Tara McPherson, author of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design "Collaboratively written in a lucid and engaging style, Technoskepticism is a generous gift, a vital and solely needed offering to those of us who work, study, and live in and through our crisis-ridden present." -Kara Keeling, author of Queer Times, Black Futures "Technoskepticism models the messiness and necessity of intellectual collaboration and nuance. Its multivocality incorporates details of specific digital cultures and evocative personal experiences, ultimately leading readers to make unexpected and powerful connections in how we might live and think between possibility and refusal." -Elizabeth Ellcessor, author of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality "Engaging and critically inspiring." --Louise Amoore, author of Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others