I'm a philosopher of technology based in Rotterdam doing my PhD as a part of the ESDIT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) research consortium  I work on counter-narratives of technological futures, resistance to Big Tech, and regaining creative and material agency in an Digital/AI era.

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Before my entry into Philosophy, I worked as a computer scientist and a new media artist working with early pre-LLM generative neural networks and brain computer interfaces. In my PhD project, I diagnose the alienation between technical objects and culture and investigate the role of technical communities in reclaiming technical objects back into culture from BigTech.

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In order to make resistance against dominant technology narratives resilient against appropriation/domestication by BigTech, my project calls for counter-narratives and a more fundamental reorientation of the following:
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1. In the genesis of the technical objects, a shift from a function-bounded logic of Design to that of a power-bounded logic of Invention.
2. In our collective efforts, a move away from the logic of _Collaboration_ to that of _Alliances_
3. And in lifting critique from the oppositional logic of the rejecting "No!" to an affirmative "How dare you?!"