Call for Participation: "From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic reflections on a decade of collective organizing in computing" at Aarhus Conference 2025
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) [image: image.png] 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)
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@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)
[image: image.png]
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)
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Jensine Raihan