On m’a demandé de diffuser l’information de cette conférence "Circle 9: Degrowth and Exnovation", les inscriptions sont closes mais c’est apparemment encore possible de s’inscrire en contactant les organisateurs. Bon après, au vu du prix et de la distance, je le partage surtout pour veille sur la diffusion de la low-tech en Europe, avec ici un exemple qui semble bien correspondre à l’interprétation française !
Texte de l’appel : A week-long study session to discuss, critically examine, share, learn about and practice low-tech and conviviality, while working towards a present and future free from alienating and fascist technologies.
Over half a century since the publication of Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality, we remain subject to technologies that we seldom understand, from which we are deeply alienated and through which we are spied, controlled or sacrificed. In the name of productivity and “expertise”, our capacity to choose what is produced and how it is produced has never been lower. Digital surveillance networks, planet-burning data servers and deadly remote drones are among the latest instances of tools which increase profit for a wealthy few at the centres of empire, at the expense of freedom, democracy and well-being. In the name of progress, we are witness to deskilling and exploitative stochastic plagiarism systems (or “AI”), now being pushed into our schools, our universities and our workplaces, in an effort to culturally legitimize the latest efforts in capital’s continuous quest to cheapen labor and turn our minds, our bodies and our lands into profit.
But this need not be so. The call of degrowth-aligned scholars and change-makers to democratically reduce our production and consumption invites us to rethink our relationship to technology, to rethink how and what we produce, what we use and what we dispose of. All this could be otherwise.
How do we regain control over whether, how and what gets produced, and how it is consumed? What democratic structures could we build to resist and dismantle the fascist logics of Big Tech? What low-tech, low-energy, low-material-throughput convivial futures could we create on the ruins of our current system, and what strategies can we pursue to get us there? What is the role of social movements in struggles at the intersection of degrowth and technology? What initiatives already exist to advance low-tech futures?