- 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 ORCID logo
- Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible? McQuillan, Daniel ORCID logo
- Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right McQuillan, Daniel ORCID logo
- 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 ORCID logo
- 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 ORCID logo
- 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 ORCID logo
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 ORCID logo
Broadcast
- Overnight Ep. 77 → The Necropolitics of AI McQuillan, Daniel ORCID logo
Professional Activity
- Opening Statement to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on AI McQuillan, Daniel ORCID logo
Report
- Public policymaking: from AI to decomputing McQuillan, Daniel ORCID logo
- 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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