“We want to ask the right questions. How do the tools work? Who finances and builds them, and how are they used? Whom do they enrich, and whom do they impoverish? What futures do they make feasible, and which ones do they foreclose? We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for logic.” — Logic Magazine manifesto [1]
“To make machines look intelligent it was necessary that the sources of their power, the labor force which surrounded and ran them, be rendered invisible.” — Simon Schaffer [2]
Drawing on a long historical pedigree of political struggle against injustice, authoritarianism and top-down technological transformation, and by recovering tactical lessons and a sense of militancy committed to the common good from the time of the Luddites, “Algorithmic Sabotage” represents a radical, prefigurative techno-political praxis of resistance, agency and refusal that seeks to transcend the deep-seated necropolitical tendencies, predictive interventions, thoughtless optimisations, increasing flows of fascist affordances and the violence of solutionism that #AI implements through an atmosphere of algorithmic paranoia in every aspect of social infrastructure, confirming the dystopian potentials of machine intelligence.
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[1] “Disruption: A Manifesto,” Logic Magazine, no. 1 (March 2017). Available at: 
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[2] Simon Schaffer, “Babbage’s Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 21, no. 1 (1994).
Logic(s) Magazine
Disruption: A Manifesto
We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for logic.