[Air-L] Call for Participation: "From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" at Aarhus Conference 2025

[Jensine Raihan]

Hello all,

I wanted to notify everyone that we extended the RSVP deadline to sign up
for this workshop to Friday, August 15th. RSVP here
<https://airtable.com/apppoI4WdDBW7ydB2/pagPa3NTT6VaS2P8H/form>!

See you soon!

Warmly,
Jensine on behalf of workshop co-organizers Linda Huber, Pedro
Reynolds-Cuellar, Alicia DeVrio, Cella M Sum, Lynn Dombrowski, Justine
Zhang, Christoph B Becker, Lilly Irani, P M Krafft, Maureen Webb & Margaret
Hughes

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM Jensine Raihan <jraihan at uci.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We are excited to invite you all to participate in a hybrid workshop "*From
> Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective
> organizing in computing" *which will take place at the Aarhus Conference
> 2025 on Tuesday August 19, 8:30–11:30 am EST / 2:30–5:30 pm CEST.
>
> *Workshop Description*
> Computing is a field plagued with presentism, oriented towards the new in
> ways that limit our design and research practices - as well as our capacity
> to understand and collectively respond to emerging crises. To improve our
> sensemaking and strategizing about today's crises, this workshop explores
> what Tamara Kneese has deemed the last decade's shift from "techlash" to
> "tech fash". What have we learned from the era of misinformation and bias,
> of "surveillance capitalism" and tech worker organizing that can inform our
> struggle against the increasing power of a techno-fascist oligarchy? We
> will also look towards previous generations of computing professionals and
> activists, who likewise sought to address the harms of emerging automated
> systems and the complicity of computing within violent, imperialist
> projects. This workshop will create space for participants to explore these
> questions collectively, bridging past and present moments in an effort to
> devise strategies moving forward.
>
> Interested in reflecting and strategizing together? *RSVP here
> <https://airtable.com/apppoI4WdDBW7ydB2/pagPa3NTT6VaS2P8H/form>*!
>
> *Important Information*:
>
>    - RSVP <https://airtable.com/apppoI4WdDBW7ydB2/pagPa3NTT6VaS2P8H/form>
>    Deadline: August 12th AOE (Anywhere on Earth)
>    - Workshop Website <https://tech-organizing-reflections.github.io/>
>    (find tentative agenda and other details)
>
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>
> Hope to see you there!
> Jensine Raihan (along with workshop co-organizers Linda Huber, Pedro
> Reynolds-Cuellar, Alicia DeVrio, Cella M Sum, Lynn Dombrowski, Justine
> Zhang, Christoph B Becker, Lilly Irani, P M Krafft, Maureen Webb & Margaret
> Hughes)
>