Hi all, Are you engaged in political struggle against technofascism? Do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artifacts, etc? Do you have thoughts about how we will win? If so, you should submit an abstract to our open panel at 4S this year: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism! The Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to be held in Toronto October 7-10, 2026. You can submit a potential abstract via the portal: www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php by April 30th (we are #138). See our full panel abstract below: 138 Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism Kevin Zheng, University of Michigan; Linda Huber, Swarthmore College; Alicia DeVrio, Carnegie Mellon University; Cella Sum, Carnegie Mellon University; Nathan Kim, University of Michigan; Ember McCoy, Pennsylvania State University; Gena Kim, University of Michigan; Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh, University of Michigan; Justine Zhang, University of Michigan Social Movements and STS Information, Computing and Media Technology 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.