- Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing? McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing? Berliner Gazette,
- Environmental peacebuilding and AI: the case for decomputing McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Environmental peacebuilding and AI: the case for decomputing. Environment and Security, ISSN 2753-8796
- A Psychogeography of AI McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. A Psychogeography of AI. Making & Breaking, 4,
- Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible? McQuillan, Daniel and Hendrix, Justin. 2025. Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible? Tech Policy Press,
- Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right. Computer Weekly, ISSN 0010-4787
- Betting on AI will take Scotland backwards not forwards McQuillan, Daniel. 2024. Betting on AI will take Scotland backwards not forwards. Bella Caledonia, ISSN 2634-1107
- A Just Transition Means Resisting AI McQuillan, Daniel. 2024. A Just Transition Means Resisting AI. The Scottish Left Review, 141,
- We Are at an Extreme Point Where We Have to Go All in on What We Really Believe Education Should Be About McQuillan, Daniel; Jarke, Juliane and Pargman, Teresa Cerratto. 2024. We Are at an Extreme Point Where We Have to Go All in on What We Really Believe Education Should Be About. Postdigital Science and Education, 6(1), pp. 360-364. ISSN 2524-485X
- AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals McQuillan, Daniel. 2024. AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals. Computer Weekly, ISSN 0010-4787
- Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix McQuillan, Daniel. 2023. Predicted benefits, proven harms: How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix. The Sociological Review Magazine, ISSN 2754-1371
- Civilian science: the potential of participatory environmental monitoring in areas affected by armed conflicts Weir, Doug; McQuillan, Daniel and Francis, Robert A.. 2019. Civilian science: the potential of participatory environmental monitoring in areas affected by armed conflicts. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191(618), ISSN 0167-6369
- Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism McQuillan, Daniel. 2018. Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism. Philosophy & Technology, 31(2), pp. 253-272. ISSN 2210-5433
- People's Councils for Ethical Machine Learning McQuillan, Daniel. 2018. People's Councils for Ethical Machine Learning. Social Media + Society, 4(2),
- Counter Mapping the Smart City McQuillan, Daniel. 2017. Counter Mapping the Smart City. Livingmaps Review(2),
- The Anthropocene, Resilience and Post-Colonial Computation McQuillan, Daniel. 2017. The Anthropocene, Resilience and Post-Colonial Computation. Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 5(2), pp. 92-109. ISSN 2169-3293
- Algorithmic paranoia and the convivial alternative McQuillan, Daniel. 2016. Algorithmic paranoia and the convivial alternative. Big Data & Society, 3(2), ISSN 20539517
- Algorithmic States of Exception McQuillan, Daniel. 2015. Algorithmic States of Exception. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4/5), pp. 564-576. ISSN 1367-5494
- The Countercultural Potential of Citizen Science McQuillan, Daniel. 2014. The Countercultural Potential of Citizen Science. M/C Journal, 17(6),
- The ps13 Pitch Spelling Algorithm Meredith, David. 2006. The ps13 Pitch Spelling Algorithm. Journal of New Music Research, 35(2), pp. 121-159. ISSN 0929-8215
Dr Dan McQuillan
Staff details
Senior Lecturer in Critical AI, author of 'Resisting AI' (Bristol University Press)
After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people learning disabilities & mental health issues, created websites with asylum seekers, ran social innovation camps in Georgia, Armenia & Kyrgyzstan, led a citizen science project in Kosova, and worked in digital roles in both Amnesty International and the NHS. He is now a Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing, and recently authored 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'.
Teaching and supervision
- Critical Social Media Practices (PG)
- Ethical Computing (UG)
- Social Media, Crowdsourcing & Citizen Sensing (UG)
- Critical AI
Featured publications
2024:
AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals
Computer Weekly
2023: Evidence to the House of Lords Inquiry into Large Language Models
2023:
Predicted benefits, proven harms - How AI’s algorithmic violence emerged from our own social matrix
The Sociological Review
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence McQuillan, Daniel. 2022. Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Bristol: Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529213492
Book Section
- AI and the counter-university McQuillan, Daniel. 2026. AI and the counter-university. In: Laurent Dubreuil and Daniel McQuillan, eds. Mechanema. New York: Cornell University Press.
- AI Infrastructures, Total Mobilisation and Decomputing McQuillan, Daniel. 2026. AI Infrastructures, Total Mobilisation and Decomputing. In: Anne Mollen; Fieke Jansen; Sigrid Kannengießer and Julia Velkova, eds. AI Infrastructures and Sustainability: Expanding perspectives on automation, communication and media. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783032097477
- New Digital Technologies, Law, and a Non-Fascist Life? On Global Governance, Digital Networks, and the Molecular Unconscious McQuillan, Daniel; Arvidsson, Matilda and Gandorfer, Daniela. 2024. New Digital Technologies, Law, and a Non-Fascist Life? On Global Governance, Digital Networks, and the Molecular Unconscious. In: Fleur Johns; Gavin Sullivan and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, eds. Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Article
- Le « decomputing » comme acte de résistance – Partie 1 [French translation of 'Decomputing as Resistance'] McQuillan, Daniel and Holubowicz, Gerald. 2025. Le « decomputing » comme acte de résistance – Partie 1 [French translation of 'Decomputing as Resistance']. Synth,
- AI’s backwards vision [invited letter] McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. AI’s backwards vision [invited letter]. Prospect magazine, ISSN 1359-5024
- Decomputing come atto di resistenza - Prima parte [Italian translation of 'Decomputing as Resistance'] McQuillan, Daniel and Fuser, Gianluca. 2025. Decomputing come atto di resistenza - Prima parte [Italian translation of 'Decomputing as Resistance']. Controversie – Ripensare le Scienze e le Tecnologie, ISSN 3035-4226
Conference or Workshop Item
- Dan Mcquillan on Decomputing McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. 'Dan Mcquillan on Decomputing'. In: LOCOS Seminar. Glasgow, United Kingdom 16 October 2025.
- Responsible AI Means Decomputing McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. 'Responsible AI Means Decomputing'. In: BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar. London, United Kingdom.
Audio
- AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia McQuillan, Daniel and Saenz de Sicilia, Andrés. 2025. AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia.
- Bursting Bubbles with Dan McQuillan McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Bursting Bubbles with Dan McQuillan.
- In the Meanwhile Ep 12: Dan McQuillan on resisting our AI overlords McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. In the Meanwhile Ep 12: Dan McQuillan on resisting our AI overlords.
Broadcast
- Overnight Ep. 77 → The Necropolitics of AI McQuillan, Daniel and Di Salvo, Philip. 2025. Overnight Ep. 77 → The Necropolitics of AI.
Professional Activity
- Opening Statement to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on AI McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Opening Statement to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on AI.
Report
- Public policymaking: from AI to decomputing McQuillan, Daniel. 2024. Public policymaking: from AI to decomputing. Other. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.
- Submission of Evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee Inquiry into Large language models McQuillan, Daniel. 2023. Submission of Evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee Inquiry into Large language models. Other. UK Parliament, London.
Research projects
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Co-lead for AI
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