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Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism | Critical Switch
critical-switch.orgThis article is based on a talk we did at the Hackmeeting at Zaragoza in september 2025. You can download the slides here.
Objectives The objectives of this article are:
Help articulate a critical theoretical framework that can serve as a base for social movements: we perceive that there is a widespread loss of historical memory and a lack of deep understanding of the origin of our current problems, especially what ideologies have brought us here. We want to fight the hopelessness that there is no horizon beyond capitalism with a critical discourse that helps us feel that we can have control over the narrative of our reality. Unify critical perspectives against technocapitalism: we want to connect the different perspectives and analyses that have already been made in the same solid and coherent discourse. Radicalizing activism: we need to identify the roots of the problem in order to conceive radically anti-capitalist perspectives, rather than lose ourselves in reforms or try to take control of capitalist technology, when actually it is the technology that controls us. It is necessary to attack the extractivism and industrial production that supports the current technology, inseparable from digitality. Motivating you to keep deepening on these topics. Technocapitalism Technocapitalism, or technological capitalism, could be defined as an evolution of industrial capitalism, where instead of focusing on extracting capital from factories, machinery and physical work, that is, from tangible work; it focuses on extracting capital from intangible work, exploiting creativity, ideas, new knowledge and data to produce new commodities.
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