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Erin McElroy
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Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
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For those in San Diego tomorrow! Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions

Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT

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Wednesday, October 29 Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions By UC San Diego Design Lab Design@Large is a UC San Diego course powered by The Design Lab that is open to the public. Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT About Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions In this talk, McElroy will explore the hopes and struggles of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project-- a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing and spatial justice. While the collective emerged to design research that could be mobilized to combat gentrification and racial banishment resulting from Siliconization, it nevertheless has continually been forced to navigate the contradictions and complexities inherent in mobilizing data, digitality, and software to organize against Silicon Valley-instigated geographies of dispossession. As we have found, even attempts to create “open” technology and mapping projects often end up reproducing Silicon Valley dynamics. In this talk McElroy discusses the technological and technocultural tensions, visions, and ecosystems inherent in navigating these spaces in today’s techno/racial capitalist conjuncture, historicizing these struggles within a longer arc of attempts to craft anticapitalist and anti-imperial politically grounded technology projects.
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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For those in DC!
Technofascist Fever Dreams. Talk at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library Oct 9th 3-4:30pm
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Join us in Seattle 9/2 at Elliot Bay Books for the release of Technocreep! @nassimparvin.bsky.social www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47682
Technocreep and the politics of things not seen
September 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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"Technological Futures Now: Racism, Imperialism, and the Surrogate Human Effect" happening today in Bonn
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Today in Sheffield with @michelelancione.bsky.social
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WRDTP 14th Annual Conference: Social Science, Care and Hope Where? The Wave, University of Sheffield. When? Tuesday June 17th 2025 (see the bottom of this page for a summary of the event programme).
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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For those in Paris

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Mardi 27.5.2025 – 16h à 17h30 (changement de date : 27 mai au lieu du 13 mai)
Erin McElroy (Washington University), autrice de Silicon Valley Imperialism. Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke Univ. Press, 2024).
May 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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So many Silicon places. Tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social

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Silicon Valley Imperialism
May 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe coming up capitalist-transformations.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe coming up capitalist-transformations.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Excited to be back in Santa Cruz today
May 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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For those in Santa Cruz, we’ll be discussing technofascisms tomorrow May 13th at 3:30!
Contesting Technofascisms Now!
May 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Tomorrow in the South Bay for those around @dukepress.bsky.social
Silicon Valley Imperialism Reading Group. Book talk May 12 12-1:30pm
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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“Beyond Molotovs – Reclaiming Antifascist Futures”
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Sudo Room
4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland

Date(s) - 2025/05/09
7:30 pm - 11:45 pm

​“Beyond Molotovs – A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies” will be presented and put into dialogue with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Beyond Molotovs
May 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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City Lights and Gray Area present
Reimagining Technopolitical Futures: Building Alternatives in the Present – A Workshop
with Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Erin McElroy,and Paul Schweizer

Sunday, May 11, 2025, Doors 12:45, Start Time 1:00 pm
Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, SF
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Technopoltical Futures
May 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Five UW students and four recent graduates have had their visas canceled.
Seattle times article https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-students-visas-revoked-by-trump-administration-without-notice/
April 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Looking forward to the Author Meets Readers for Silicon Valley Imperialism today at the #AAG2025 at 12:50 at 330A Level 3 Huntington Place w @muybarra.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, Ananya Roy, and Magie Ramirez @dukepress.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social
Silicon Valley Imperialism book cover featuring a burning house and a red monster. Illustration by Alex Horghidan
March 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Giving a talk soon on Silicon Valley Imperialism for friends in Ann Arbor today!
February 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Tomorrow (Feb 6th) in Vancouver!

Workshop: Displacement and Resistance⁠
2–4pm⁠ SFU’s Centre for Engaged Research Initiatives

Lecture: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Frictions of Technocapitalism in Gentrifying Times⁠
6pm⁠ Labatt Hall at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus
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photo of Erin McElroy with text about the workshop and and talk We are excited to invite you to attend two upcoming events in honour of our 2025 Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Erin McElroy, from the University of Washington.⁠ ⁠ Their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, digitality, empire, and racial capitalism in the US and in Romania, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities. ⁠ ⁠ The events are as follows:⁠ ⁠ Workshop: Narrative Mapping: Displacement and Resistance⁠ February 6, 2025 | 2 – 4 pm⁠ SFU’s Centre for Engaged Research Initiatives (CeRI)⁠ ⁠ Using their experience as co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project , Dr. McElroy will facilitate this community-centred and community-engaged workshop. ⁠ ⁠ REGISTER https://events.sfu.ca/event/42859-distinguished-speaker-dr-erin-mcelroy-from-the. Spots are limited.⁠ _______⁠ ⁠ Distinguished Lecture: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Frictions of Technocapitalism in Gentrifying Times⁠ February 6, 2025 | 6 pm⁠ Labatt Hall at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus⁠ ⁠ Dr. McElroy’s lecture will chart how technocapitalist aspirations invoke gentrification, racial dispossession, and anticommunism. Drawing from their recently-published book, McElroy investigates the mechanisms through which Siliconization cannibalizes socialist-era technocultures, infrastructure, and visions in the name of progress. ⁠ ⁠ Refreshments will be served following the lecture. Registration not required.⁠ ⁠ See you there!⁠
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Looking forward to this upcoming conversation with Wendy Liu on Refusing Silicon Valley. For those in the Bay, join us this coming Wednesday the 4th at Shaping SF
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December 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM