Power and Resistance in Digital Degrowth

SHORT PAPER. Degrowth is increasingly gaining attention as an alternative model to the unfolding eco-social crisis generated by industrial capitalism, though questions concerning digital technologies have yet to be addressed in degrowth research. Among the movement of the (digital) commons, whose practices complement degrowth theory, one of the research areas is the viability of such systems to release spaces from capitalism. As (digital) commons spaces frequently revert to capitalist logic, we introduce the "technological dramas" model to encompass the reciprocal and recursive technological production of political power by agonistic entities. We suggest that such a techno-political perspective could contribute to better frame degrowth-related HCI research.