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Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
The article shows how the SWANA region functions under conditions where surveillance technologies, AI-enabled moderation, and digital governance are tested in moments of crisis - revealing the material consequences of platform design.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The article shows how the SWANA region functions under conditions where surveillance technologies, AI-enabled moderation, and digital governance are tested in moments of crisis - revealing the material consequences of platform design.
Across these cases, automated moderation, policy rollbacks, and uneven enforcement do not operate outside politics. They align platforms with state power, securitisation agendas, and militarised governance.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Across these cases, automated moderation, policy rollbacks, and uneven enforcement do not operate outside politics. They align platforms with state power, securitisation agendas, and militarised governance.
In Palestine, long-documented patterns of content removal, shadowbanning, and disproportionate compliance with Israeli takedown requests have systematically limited the visibility of Palestinian documentation of violence.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
In Palestine, long-documented patterns of content removal, shadowbanning, and disproportionate compliance with Israeli takedown requests have systematically limited the visibility of Palestinian documentation of violence.
In Sudan, TikTok’s recommendation systems amplified videos produced by the Rapid Support Forces that documented and glorified atrocities during the Darfur genocide - allowing violent content to circulate, gain engagement, and be replicated across platforms.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
In Sudan, TikTok’s recommendation systems amplified videos produced by the Rapid Support Forces that documented and glorified atrocities during the Darfur genocide - allowing violent content to circulate, gain engagement, and be replicated across platforms.
In Tunisia, xenophobic state rhetoric intersected with permissive platform environments. After President Kaïs Saïed’s February 2023 speech, online incitement translated into anti-Black violence, arbitrary arrests, and forced deportations.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 PM
In Tunisia, xenophobic state rhetoric intersected with permissive platform environments. After President Kaïs Saïed’s February 2023 speech, online incitement translated into anti-Black violence, arbitrary arrests, and forced deportations.
Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Published as part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, produced in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
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Against platform enclosure, Lovink returns to tactical media:
small sparks, memes, jokes, stickers - forms that migrate, recombine, and survive.
small sparks, memes, jokes, stickers - forms that migrate, recombine, and survive.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Against platform enclosure, Lovink returns to tactical media:
small sparks, memes, jokes, stickers - forms that migrate, recombine, and survive.
small sparks, memes, jokes, stickers - forms that migrate, recombine, and survive.
Lovink warns that overstimulation has destroyed our capacity to dream - while corporations prepare to enter that space.
“The dream space will be one of the next Big Tech battlefields”.
“The dream space will be one of the next Big Tech battlefields”.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Lovink warns that overstimulation has destroyed our capacity to dream - while corporations prepare to enter that space.
“The dream space will be one of the next Big Tech battlefields”.
“The dream space will be one of the next Big Tech battlefields”.
The deeper problem is the linking of content to identity.
“There cannot be dissident content without an encrypted, anonymous delivery mechanism”.
“There cannot be dissident content without an encrypted, anonymous delivery mechanism”.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
The deeper problem is the linking of content to identity.
“There cannot be dissident content without an encrypted, anonymous delivery mechanism”.
“There cannot be dissident content without an encrypted, anonymous delivery mechanism”.
Lovink rejects individual solutions.
The consumer behaviour approach, he says, “is simply the wrong one”.
Any rupture would have to happen collectively -
“together, as Team Human, in an urgent setting”.
The consumer behaviour approach, he says, “is simply the wrong one”.
Any rupture would have to happen collectively -
“together, as Team Human, in an urgent setting”.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Lovink rejects individual solutions.
The consumer behaviour approach, he says, “is simply the wrong one”.
Any rupture would have to happen collectively -
“together, as Team Human, in an urgent setting”.
The consumer behaviour approach, he says, “is simply the wrong one”.
Any rupture would have to happen collectively -
“together, as Team Human, in an urgent setting”.
Focusing only on the word “genocide”, he warns, narrows attention to the final stage - while obscuring the continuum in which these processes are already unfolding.
Violence becomes legible too late.
Violence becomes legible too late.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Focusing only on the word “genocide”, he warns, narrows attention to the final stage - while obscuring the continuum in which these processes are already unfolding.
Violence becomes legible too late.
Violence becomes legible too late.
He describes a sliding scale of violence:
from profiling and categorising identity
(nationality, race, biometrics),
to confinement and isolation,
to “expulsion, removal, extradition or even extermination”.
from profiling and categorising identity
(nationality, race, biometrics),
to confinement and isolation,
to “expulsion, removal, extradition or even extermination”.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
He describes a sliding scale of violence:
from profiling and categorising identity
(nationality, race, biometrics),
to confinement and isolation,
to “expulsion, removal, extradition or even extermination”.
from profiling and categorising identity
(nationality, race, biometrics),
to confinement and isolation,
to “expulsion, removal, extradition or even extermination”.
In Platform Brutality, Lovink argues that platforms no longer merely represent violence.
They produce it.
Digital infrastructures now treat the world as “an immense reservoir” - a logic “translated directly into political violence”.
They produce it.
Digital infrastructures now treat the world as “an immense reservoir” - a logic “translated directly into political violence”.
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
In Platform Brutality, Lovink argues that platforms no longer merely represent violence.
They produce it.
Digital infrastructures now treat the world as “an immense reservoir” - a logic “translated directly into political violence”.
They produce it.
Digital infrastructures now treat the world as “an immense reservoir” - a logic “translated directly into political violence”.
Even global politics reach Elche: a trader says a boycott of Israeli Medjoul dates turned a major client to local palms.
“I like working up high,” Toni says. “It makes me feel calm, it gives me peace.”
Read the full story by Nadia Addezio on UntoldMag
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“I like working up high,” Toni says. “It makes me feel calm, it gives me peace.”
Read the full story by Nadia Addezio on UntoldMag
#Heritage #UNESCO #Spain
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
But EU safety laws and local politics threaten the craft.
“Regulations designed for tree pruning have been applied wholesale… We’re caught in a legal vacuum,” says García Soto.
Campos Rubira adds: “The city council is dismantling our craft.”
“Regulations designed for tree pruning have been applied wholesale… We’re caught in a legal vacuum,” says García Soto.
Campos Rubira adds: “The city council is dismantling our craft.”
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
But EU safety laws and local politics threaten the craft.
“Regulations designed for tree pruning have been applied wholesale… We’re caught in a legal vacuum,” says García Soto.
Campos Rubira adds: “The city council is dismantling our craft.”
“Regulations designed for tree pruning have been applied wholesale… We’re caught in a legal vacuum,” says García Soto.
Campos Rubira adds: “The city council is dismantling our craft.”
Their most delicate task: the palma blanca.
By blocking sunlight, leaves turn white in 30–45 days, harvested each summer and crafted into intricate creations for Palm Sunday.
By blocking sunlight, leaves turn white in 30–45 days, harvested each summer and crafted into intricate creations for Palm Sunday.
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Their most delicate task: the palma blanca.
By blocking sunlight, leaves turn white in 30–45 days, harvested each summer and crafted into intricate creations for Palm Sunday.
By blocking sunlight, leaves turn white in 30–45 days, harvested each summer and crafted into intricate creations for Palm Sunday.
Antonio García Soto, 53, still climbs with his sons Alejandro (24) and Toni (20).
From barefoot climbs with esparto ropes to nylon cables, he insists on passing the tradition down.
From barefoot climbs with esparto ropes to nylon cables, he insists on passing the tradition down.
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Antonio García Soto, 53, still climbs with his sons Alejandro (24) and Toni (20).
From barefoot climbs with esparto ropes to nylon cables, he insists on passing the tradition down.
From barefoot climbs with esparto ropes to nylon cables, he insists on passing the tradition down.
Palmerero Campos Rubira recalls:
“When I started out, most believed the trade was destined to disappear. It was grueling work, and hardly any sons wanted to follow. The tradition was breaking.”
“When I started out, most believed the trade was destined to disappear. It was grueling work, and hardly any sons wanted to follow. The tradition was breaking.”
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Palmerero Campos Rubira recalls:
“When I started out, most believed the trade was destined to disappear. It was grueling work, and hardly any sons wanted to follow. The tradition was breaking.”
“When I started out, most believed the trade was destined to disappear. It was grueling work, and hardly any sons wanted to follow. The tradition was breaking.”
Historian & anthropologist Luis Pablo Martínez Sanmartín proved the grove’s early origins:
“The palm grove is contemporaneous with the founding of the Medina of Elche.”
“The palm grove is contemporaneous with the founding of the Medina of Elche.”
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Historian & anthropologist Luis Pablo Martínez Sanmartín proved the grove’s early origins:
“The palm grove is contemporaneous with the founding of the Medina of Elche.”
“The palm grove is contemporaneous with the founding of the Medina of Elche.”
The Palmeral of Elche was planted between the 8th–10th centuries by Arab settlers.
With 200,000 palms and ancient irrigation canals, it stands as a monument to Islamic engineering and collective ingenuity.
With 200,000 palms and ancient irrigation canals, it stands as a monument to Islamic engineering and collective ingenuity.
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The Palmeral of Elche was planted between the 8th–10th centuries by Arab settlers.
With 200,000 palms and ancient irrigation canals, it stands as a monument to Islamic engineering and collective ingenuity.
With 200,000 palms and ancient irrigation canals, it stands as a monument to Islamic engineering and collective ingenuity.
This article is part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, published in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
#Gaza #Auschwitz #Genocide #PoliticalTheory #MediaAndViolence #Technoviolence #CriticalTheory #FrancoBerardi
#Gaza #Auschwitz #Genocide #PoliticalTheory #MediaAndViolence #Technoviolence #CriticalTheory #FrancoBerardi
January 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This article is part of the dossier Technoviolence: Confronting Systematic Injustice, published in partnership with Disruption Network Lab.
#Gaza #Auschwitz #Genocide #PoliticalTheory #MediaAndViolence #Technoviolence #CriticalTheory #FrancoBerardi
#Gaza #Auschwitz #Genocide #PoliticalTheory #MediaAndViolence #Technoviolence #CriticalTheory #FrancoBerardi