"Members of the latter group identified themselves as information-technology workers and described their attack as 'an intelligent act of sabotage,' opposing the 'dangers of IT and telematics.'"
"CLODO continued to express their dissent by bombing the regional computer archives of Haute-Garonne, decrying a 'society where we connect like trains in a rail yard, desperately hoping to reduce chance.'"
"They saw digital recordkeeping as a kind of existential imprisonment, locking humanity in a cage of data."
"The techno-negative attitude involves 'longing for the dismantling of what sustains you,' he writes."
Throughout history, various groups have resisted technological advancements that threaten their livelihoods and freedoms. The Luddites in 19th century England destroyed machinery, while in Paris, revolutionaries smashed gas lights as a form of protest against state surveillance. The Committee for the Liquidation or Subversion of Computers, known as CLODO, targeted computer technology in the 1980s, viewing digital recordkeeping as existential imprisonment. Thomas Dekeyser's book, 'Techno-Negative,' examines these acts of resistance and the longing for dismantling technologies that sustain society.
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