Thomas Dekeyser
@thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Films: Breached/Machines in Flames. Book (forthcoming): Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press).
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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
I am inviting applications for PhD projects at Uni of Southampton, focused on: politics of refusal, digital tech, urban interventions and/or geographical theory. Funding app's would be made to the South Coast DTP.
Please check out my work to ensure a fit!
www.thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervis...
Please check out my work to ensure a fit!
www.thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervis...
PhD supervision — Thomas Dekeyser
www.thomasdekeyser.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I am inviting applications for PhD projects at Uni of Southampton, focused on: politics of refusal, digital tech, urban interventions and/or geographical theory. Funding app's would be made to the South Coast DTP.
Please check out my work to ensure a fit!
www.thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervis...
Please check out my work to ensure a fit!
www.thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervis...
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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We're going to have people like @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social with us talking about his book.
How could I not be excited?
there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
How could I not be excited?
there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
We're going to have people like @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social with us talking about his book.
How could I not be excited?
there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
How could I not be excited?
there's still time to submit something... www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
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*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
Techno-Negative
A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
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Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
September 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.
(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.
(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨
organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social
organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨
organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social
organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social
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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
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New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.
Open Access Here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
Open Access Here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
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August 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.
Open Access Here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
Open Access Here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Wrote a book review of Roy Christopher's "Escape Philosophy", a rich, if somewhat universalist, dive into the human desire to escape the body.
Part of a forthcoming special issue on 'Geographies of Leaving' in Social and Cultural Geography.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Part of a forthcoming special issue on 'Geographies of Leaving' in Social and Cultural Geography.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Wrote a book review of Roy Christopher's "Escape Philosophy", a rich, if somewhat universalist, dive into the human desire to escape the body.
Part of a forthcoming special issue on 'Geographies of Leaving' in Social and Cultural Geography.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Part of a forthcoming special issue on 'Geographies of Leaving' in Social and Cultural Geography.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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ICYMI: Thomas Dekeyser, 'Pessimism, Futility and Extinction: An Interview with Eugene Thacker' - offers a unique insight into Thacker’s approach to the thinking, doing and writing of ‘philosophy’. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICYMI: Thomas Dekeyser, 'Pessimism, Futility and Extinction: An Interview with Eugene Thacker' - offers a unique insight into Thacker’s approach to the thinking, doing and writing of ‘philosophy’. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Job advert: Fixed-term Lectureship (24 months) in our School of Geography and Environmental Science, with a focus on qualitative methods and health geographies. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer in Human Geography
The University of Southampton is ranked 14th in the UK (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025) and 80th globally (QS World University Rankings 2025). The School of Geography and Enviro...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Job advert: Fixed-term Lectureship (24 months) in our School of Geography and Environmental Science, with a focus on qualitative methods and health geographies. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Tired of the politically-stale state of much contemporary film? If so, you might vibe with this manifesto I co-wrote with Andrew Culp. It's available for online reading and for printing.
Read: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4nbk...
Print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rf7c2...
Read: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4nbk...
Print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rf7c2...
April 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tired of the politically-stale state of much contemporary film? If so, you might vibe with this manifesto I co-wrote with Andrew Culp. It's available for online reading and for printing.
Read: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4nbk...
Print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rf7c2...
Read: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4nbk...
Print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rf7c2...
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There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
April 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
April 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
Submitted the final manuscript of 'Techno-Negative' recently (@uminnpress.bsky.social). If all goes well, the book should be out in Spring 2026. Can't wait to share it with the world.
April 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Submitted the final manuscript of 'Techno-Negative' recently (@uminnpress.bsky.social). If all goes well, the book should be out in Spring 2026. Can't wait to share it with the world.
Tomorrow: Montreal screening of our two films - Machines in Flames + BREACHED - in case anyone is in the area.
April 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Tomorrow: Montreal screening of our two films - Machines in Flames + BREACHED - in case anyone is in the area.
Enjoyed being able to present a new project alongside
@vickiezhang.bsky.social yesterday at King's' geography seminar series. Thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Alex Loftus for hosting us!
@vickiezhang.bsky.social yesterday at King's' geography seminar series. Thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Alex Loftus for hosting us!
March 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Enjoyed being able to present a new project alongside
@vickiezhang.bsky.social yesterday at King's' geography seminar series. Thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Alex Loftus for hosting us!
@vickiezhang.bsky.social yesterday at King's' geography seminar series. Thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Alex Loftus for hosting us!
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What does it mean to be ‘out of it’? 🤔
How might foggier experiences of cognition change our relationship with place, to each other, and ourselves? 🌫️
Open access ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How might foggier experiences of cognition change our relationship with place, to each other, and ourselves? 🌫️
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March 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
What does it mean to be ‘out of it’? 🤔
How might foggier experiences of cognition change our relationship with place, to each other, and ourselves? 🌫️
Open access ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How might foggier experiences of cognition change our relationship with place, to each other, and ourselves? 🌫️
Open access ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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February 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
doi.org/10.1177/0263...
The theme of our CfP is - painfully - gaining in further relevance as the Trump-Thiel-Musk triad deepens its AI-inflected authoritarian tendencies.
Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.
Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.
Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
February 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The theme of our CfP is - painfully - gaining in further relevance as the Trump-Thiel-Musk triad deepens its AI-inflected authoritarian tendencies.
Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.
Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.
"Without defaulting to imagining dystopias or non-affirmative worlds, we need to find ways to imagine imagination outside affirmation, if that is possible."
New Progress report by Harriet Hawkins.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New Progress report by Harriet Hawkins.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Without defaulting to imagining dystopias or non-affirmative worlds, we need to find ways to imagine imagination outside affirmation, if that is possible."
New Progress report by Harriet Hawkins.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New Progress report by Harriet Hawkins.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Organising an RGS session on 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' - check out our Call for Papers!
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
January 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Organising an RGS session on 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' - check out our Call for Papers!