[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,

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)