[Tech-Fascism

As part of a seminar on media technologies of organization, we are using the occassion of the action week to talk about tech-fascism. This is a recent term that tries to make sense of how contemporary digital media technologies, and their associated knowledges, practices and ideologies, are entangled with fascist organizing. We will explore to what extend contemporary tech, in many ways emanating from Silicon Valley, has fascist tendencies (or more than that), taking generative AI as an example. We will also explore some of the ideologies that drive tech development, and how they are often explicitly fascist. To prepare, please read: Toscano, Alberto. (148 AD) 2025. ‘They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility’. In Are You a Software Update?, edited by Nora O’Murchú and Janša Janša. Aksioma. Möllers, Norma. 2025. ‘We Have Never Not Been Fascist: Infrastructures of State Violence as Technofascist Laboratories’. Dialogues on Digital Society 1 (3): 252–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251377169. Also please have a look at: https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/ https://nottoday.diy/network Optional: Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. ‘Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the New Authoritarianism’. AI & SOCIETY, ahead of print, January 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9. re:publica. 2026. Re:Publica 26: Rainer Mühlhoff – KI Und Der Neue Faschismus. 30:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7Nywt_NnU. [You can switch on English subtitles.]

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