Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism".

The whims and power plays of tech oligarchs like Musk and Zuckerberg seem to be increasingly running our world. In her book “Insufferable Tools,” media theorist Sarah Sharma exposes the gendered politics of modern technology. She demonstrates how tech giants have transformed the internet—and, increasingly, “real life”—into environments in which we, as users, have become the real tools. Sharma critiques an inclusive “Big Tech feminism” system that attempts to incorporate and exploit people of color, queer people, and others regarded as “defective machines” within current gendered power structures. In contrast, Sharma proposes a feminist techno-politics that can forge new futures free from the grip of insufferable tools.

The event will be held in English.