Press

As an expert on resistance to technology, AI and urban interventions I have contributed to a wide range of media publications, including the selection provided here. Feel free to contact me with press requests.

(interview) “Could AI kill us all? Professor weighs in on former Anthropic employee's claim,” NPR, 13 September 2026.

(interview) ”Soziale Netzwerke und KI verdienen deutlich mehr Ablehnung, als ihnen derzeit entgegengebracht wird,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 July 2026.

(interview) “Techno-négativité - Thomas Dekeyser, géographe: «Il est temps de sauter hors du train fou de l’Intelligence artificielle»,” Libération, 23 July 2026.

(interview) “Tech Refusal Has a Very Long History w/ Thomas Dekeyser.” Tech Won’t Save Us, 16 July 2026.

(interview) “Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz werden uns aufgezwungen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 June 2026.

(featured) “Rage against the Machine,” New Zealand Post, 23 May 2026.

(interview) “Künstliche Intelligenz greift alles an,” Die Zeit, 12 May 2026.

(interview) “Faut-il saboter les datacenters?,” Le Grand Continent, 5 May 2026.

(book review/feature) “När kommer upproret mot tech-mogulerna?,” Svenska Dagbladet, 28 April 2026.

(book review/feature) “The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology,” The New Yorker, 8 April 2026.

(interview) “Is there life after smartphones?,” New York Times Magazine, 31 March 2026.

(interview) “Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul,” Rest of World, 17 March 2026.

(featured) “Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026,” Literary Hub, 6 January 2026.

(interview) “Thomas Dekeyser : Everything Must Burn,” Hanrahan Life, 11 December 2025.

(featured) “Man Installed ‘Kill Switch’ So That If He Was Ever Fired, All Hell Would Break Loose,” Yahoo News, 11 March 2025.

(interview) “À l'âge de l'IA, faut-il briser nos machines?”, Sciences Humaines, 9 January 2025.

(interview) “Against the Computer and its World”, IllWill, 9 November 2024.

(interview) “AI interview: Thomas Dekeyser, researcher and film director”, Computer Weekly, 12 August 2024.

(interview) “After French Rail Sabotage, Some See Signs of a Murky ‘Ultraleft’”, New York Times, 7 August 2024.

(interview) “Why sabotage tactics by militant groups are on the rise across Europe”, The i, 28 July 2024.

(interview) “Machines in Flames: Documentary proves mystery of French IT workers who bombed tech firms – then vanished”. The i, 11 May 2023.

(interview) “Anti-Tesla Militancy”, Popular Front Podcast, 14 February 2023.

(interview) “Smash the Computers!”, Tribune Magazine, 1st September 2022. [also in Jacobin]

(interview) “Machines in Flames”, Theorizing the Web Podcast, 14th August 2022.

(interview) “The French anarchists who took on sinister tech giants”, HUCK Magazine, 14th July 2022.

(interview) “‘Machines in Flames.’ Who Were the Mysterious Computer Arsonists in 1980s Toulouse?”, Algorithm Watch, 17 June 2022.

(interview) “The Anti-Tech Militants Who Never Got Caught”, Popular Front Podcast, 31 May 2022.

(featured) ‘‘We’re in a post-truth apocalypse’: meet Foka Wolf, Birmingham’s billboard prankster’, The Guardian, 13 April 2022.

(interview) ‘Break with advertising’, ANS, 7 February 2022.

(panel/debate) ‘Reclame in de stad: verrijking of vervuiling?’ [Advertising in the city: enrichment or pollution?]. Pakhuis De Zwijger, 19 January 2022.

(interview) All consuming. Message Recall Podcast, January 2021.

(interview) ‘Als je de wereld wil verbeteren, heb je in de reclame niets te zoeken’ [If you want to improve the world, then advertising’s isn’t the place for you]. Adformatie, 7 October 2020.

(TV interview) Rebellen tegen reclame [Rebels against advertising]. VPRO, 26 April 2020.

(interview) ‘Subvertising’ hackers are using street ads to protest. CNN, 23rd March 2018.

(images) Fake Tory posters mocking Theresa May appear at bus stops and on Tube. Evening Standard, 1 June 2017.

(images) The guerrilla anti-Tory adverts appearing all over London. The Independent, 31 May 2017.

(interview) LOOK: In Paris, Artists Turn Ad Spaces Into Climate Change Protests. NPR, 4 December 2015.

(images) Activists flood Paris with ads mocking corporate sponsors of climate change talks. The Washington Post, 2 December 2015.

(video) Paris climate summit: Survey reveals ‘greenwash’ of corporate sponsors.The Guardian, 1 December 2015.

(video) UN-Klimakonferenz: Die Werbelügenglobaler Konzerne. Wired (Germany), 1 December 2015.

(video) COP 21 : Un collectif d’artistes detourne 600 affiches publicitaires pour denouncer la ‘schizophrenie’ des sponsors. Liberation, 30 November 2015.

(interview) A breath of life for Molyvann building. Phnom Penh Post, 16 May 2014.

(interview) Urban explorers uncover hidden gems. The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August 2014.Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul„Technologien wie Künstliche Intelligenz werden uns aufgezwungen“