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keanbirch.bsky.social
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
keanbirch.bsky.social
We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
vajra.me
it's too bad that the ways in which rationalists—and tescrealists in general—fail to think are so unfortunately instructive if you want to understand the batshit flailings of modern technopower, otherwise nobody would ever pay attention to the fried bankman
September 4, 2026 at 12:57 AM
indrekibrus.bsky.social
Wired.com, which used to be a consumer and culture magazine has emerged as a leading driver of investigative journalism into technopower. Very cool!
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 3
A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
charleswlogan.bsky.social
Oh hey excited to attend my first 4S to present, “Parents, Caregivers, and a Growing Resistance to TechnoPower in Schools" with @alliethrall.bsky.social and “Refusing AI Hype in an Undergraduate Classroom: Reflections on AI, Equity, and Public Education" with Sepehr Vakil. See you in Toronto 🍁
May 29, 2026 at 9:30 PM
embermcc.bsky.social
8 more days to submit an abstract to our 4s panel, "Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions in the fight against technofascism." Looking forward to an engaging conversation centered on the (totally small, very easy) q: "how do we win?" Apply by 4/30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
April 22, 2026 at 1:24 PM
www.resistancesentinel.com
So. We’re gonna “liberate” blue cities, take Greenland (NATO), and have a war with Iran too. This is the view of US military power I had as a child, when I just thought all the airplanes and tanks and stuff were super cool. But this view of limitless technopower is now American policy.
June 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
keanbirch.bsky.social
DEADLINE EXTENSION! Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) has extended the deadline for conference Open Panel submissions until 9th February 2026. The conference is being held in Toronto, 7-10th Oct 2026.

Conference Theme: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures

4sonline.org/call_for_ope...
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February 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM
spaceguitar.bsky.social
"Resistance" stands for resistance and strength – a track that motivates you to keep pushing forward.
📹 Full mix here: www.youtube.com/@spaceguitar

#Resistance #LillyPalmer #StrengthInTechno #AIArt #spaceguitar #TechnoPower
April 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
giannaraelynn.bsky.social
🔥 Pure energy! Elevate your mind with our new techno mix. It’s collaborative—add your favorite powerful track and let’s build the ultimate vibe together! ⚡️ #TechnoPower #JointheMix #addyours

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The Techno Circuit: Neon Resonance
Playlist · Gianna Raelynn · 51 items
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August 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
dustinedwards.bsky.social
This TikTok stunt is so insidious but also so obvious. Now we wait to see the lineup of technopower lined up behind him at the inauguration.
January 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
spaceguitar.bsky.social
"Listen To Me" – a call that dives deep into the techno rhythm and sweeps you along. A track that must be experienced, not just heard.
📹 Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@spaceguitar

#ListenToMe #LillyPalmer #TechnoPower #AIArt #spaceguitar #LiveTheBeat
April 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
disruptionlab.bsky.social
🌐 Join Rima Sghaier for a workshop on digital fascism, technopower & resistance.
Sept 21 · Berlin · Register by Sept 11.
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#dnl36 #FeministTech #SWANAvoices #TechResistance
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
lofipublishing.bsky.social
GEGENANGST TAPESAMPLER
Release Sause am 30.10. ab 19h
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Live: Fallbeil & Female Singer Wanted
DJs: Hohlpraut, Wallace & Tim

#fallbeil #femalesingerwanted #hohlpraut #wallaceundtim #langeunterbuxe #keepwarm #party #hamburgtown #technopower
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
mpcp.bsky.social
If you are interested in thinking (broadly) about the intersections (and disconnections) between STS and Marxists traditions to theorize technopower, please consider submitting an abstract to our panel for the @4sweb.bsky.social annual meeting in Toronto!!

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April 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
theobtl.eurosky.social
Ann Brody and I are running an open panel at @4sweb.bsky.social 4S #technopower 2026 in Toronto (Oct 7–10).

"Exit, Voice, and Stake: Governance and the Boundaries of Legitimate Coordination in Open Infrastructure"

Ann: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
me: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
March 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Finally registered for 4S in Toronto this October. Really looking forward to the 50 year anniversary of @4sweb.bsky.social ! The hashtag might be #4S26 #4S2026 or #4S50, right? But hashtags aren't a thing these days anyway. However, I look forward to seeing you at Lake Ontario!
Logo 4S Toronto Technopower
August 31, 2026 at 11:28 PM
jeremypeel.bsky.social
Yes! The most terrifying bit! Don’t forget Gaia while you reach for technopower or you will be punished.
September 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
tisjune.bsky.social
hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
Title: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism with authors and research areas The current moment is characterized by resurgent struggles against technofascism. These struggles include community resistance against data centers, strategic actions against tech companies complicit in genocidal violence, and organizing efforts across many sectors against the proliferation of AI in the workplace. This open panel gathers people engaged in these sites of struggle to collectively consider the following question: how can STS approaches advance these struggles against fascist technopower, and work towards constructing more liberatory futures? In addressing this question, we seek to surface the incipient militant potential of STS, often submerged under scholarship that muddies strategic analysis and disarms political action through the register of subversive critique. Through close attention to relationality and sociality, STS may help build solidarities while unsettling the sedimented categories that impede movement building (Breymen et al, 2017). By incorporating materialist, political economic accounts of technology, STS may help push beyond the boundaries of "ethical tech” by revealing the imbrications of economic and financial processes with technoscience (Birch, 2013). And as a roving, interdisciplinary field attuned to embodied and situated practices (Haraway, 1988), an STS lens may help ensure that analyses are constantly attentive to the lively contingencies of on-the-ground struggles. We seek to explore theories born through political struggle, and examples of how STS theory informs praxis. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: strategic reflections from organizers and activists; historical accounts that can inform future organizing and activism; or the analysis of organizing artefacts (e.g., propaganda, slogans, campaigns) and their role in advancing political struggle. We will facilitate this panel as an open discussion among folks situated across different sites of struggle, aiming to provide a space for advancing the struggle against technofascism through the development of relationships, theories, and strategic insights.
March 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
mathewiantorno.com
Just submitted my paper to 4S 2026 in Toronto! A reminder that the call for submissions is open until April 30. www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
4S 2026 Toronto. Technopower. Technoscientific futures. 50th anniversary.
March 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
jiinkant.bsky.social
Hi👋 STS Folks! I’ll be presenting “Nurturing the Inorganic: Pseudo-eggs and Interspecies Diplomacy in Blakiston’s Fish Owl Conservation” at #4SToronto next month, as part of the panel “Operationalizing Binaries: Technopower and In-Between Governance,” organized by Aya Kimura and Mayumi Fukunaga.
September 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
mathewiantorno.com
The schedule for 4S 2026 is out! I've landed on a very fun panel about technology and food. 🤖🥪
TechnoPower Landscapes: How Technoscientific Spacialization Structures Food Systems 2 Wed, October 07 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM Carleton Mezzanine Open Panel Presentations 12:20 PM 12:20 PM Refueling Labour: Vending Machines as Technologies of Worker Optimization Mathew Iantorno, Graduate Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto 12:20 PM 12:20 PM Navigating Urban Foodscapes: An exploration of food environments and their influence on eating practices among young adu Samyuktha Rameshkumar, Dr., Richa Kumar; Richa Kumar, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Preetha Thomas; Megan Ferguson 12:20 PM 12:20 PM Agricultural Experimentation as Techno-Spatial Imaginaries Katie Rohrbaugh, Graduate Student, Cornell University; Emily Fratz 12:20 PM 12:20 PM Ghost Kitchens and their Tech Landlords: How technopower reorganizes labor, infrastructure, and urban space Donghyoun We, UCLA
August 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
apasek.bsky.social
It's Open Panel submissions season for 4S and @thehanopticon.bsky.social putting on a sweet one!
11. media energetics. The 2026 Call for 4S explains that this year’s theme draws attention to the fact that “science, technology, and innovation are not neutral” but are rather “socially, culturally, and economically constructed.” Responding to this, our open panel highlights the imbrications of TechnoPower with power-as-energy—the material resources needed to power our technologies and media cultures. Following Edmund Russell et al.’s contention in “The Nature of Power” that “all power, social as well as physical, derives from energy” (2011, 248), we argue for closer attention to the inequities of energy that undergird technological systems. We can see the way these entanglements manifest today, from U.S. imperial interventions in oil-rich Venezuela to community resistance to data center development in Southern California. Given the role of media in imagining alternative political, economic, and social relations from those that characterize today’s extractivist energy regimes, the study of media offers a privileged perspective from which to view modern contestations over energy futures. From petromedia, to solar media and the resource requirements of AI, work in environmental media studies, STS, and related fields have traced and analyzed the landscapes and ecologies of information and communication technologies. Building on Dominic Boyer’s formulation of “energopower” as a means of rethinking political power through fuel and electricity (2014, 325) as well as Anne Pasek et. al’s conceptualization of energetics as a heuristic for examining “material articulations between contemporary, (largely) fossil-fueled electrical systems and the logics and limits of digital devices and networks,” (2023,10), this open session invites participants to consider how energy is captured within mediating infrastructures and how technologies, in turn, come to define our relationship to energy....
March 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
layladoodle.bsky.social
Mahmood’s heroine is Thatcher which is self explanatory and that is why Starmer, in his furthering to the political right, employed her as Home Secretary. Not only has she an appalling inhumane immigration policy but she is behind Starmer’s polyopticon current expansion of state surveillance.
The Polyopticon: Data Gathering and State Technopower
A panopticon-inspired prison. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Introduction The world is on the cusp of a fourth industrial revolution.[i] This revolution is driven by the increased connectivity, r…
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February 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
nanou11.bsky.social
Elon Musk wants to shape the future of human genetics — by offering his sperm to “smart” women for money.
Neoliberal eugenics: where the rich decide who should reproduce.
Not sci-fi. Just power, money, and control.

#PrivateEugenics #TechnoPower #Bioethics #Musk

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Elon Musk offre son sperme
Elon Musk veut plus d'enfants. Il a fait une «offre» à une importante personnalité de la Sillicon Valley et même à des inconnus rencontrés à un dîner.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM