The group's foundational texts, including the widely translated Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage , establish that digital architecture is not neutral. Instead, it is an active mechanism of classification, control, and exploitation. To counteract this, ASRG advocates for prefigurative techno-political strategies—building alternative systems while actively disabling or complicating oppressive ones. Core Methodologies: Poisoning, Traps, and Disruptions
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The ASRG's manifesto has become a touchstone for a growing, decentralized community. An international call was issued for its translation, leading to versions in multiple languages, including Greek, German, French, and Basque.
The is a conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, and practice-led research framework that explores the intersection of digital culture, information technology, and militant political agency. Operating as an anonymous or collective entity, the group focuses on conceptualizing and implementing "algorithmic sabotage" as a form of techno-disobedience and artistic activism against what they describe as "necropolitical technologies" and structural injustices. Core Philosophy and the "Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage" Users didn’t leave the platform
In a controlled study, the ASRG demonstrated how a social media recommendation engine could be sabotaged to gradually "cool" engagement for a specific political demographic—not by censoring them, but by subtly delaying the delivery of notifications and replies. Users didn’t leave the platform; they simply became 40% less active over three months. This slow-motion sabotage was invisible to standard A/B tests.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ TRADITIONAL TECH-REFORMISM │ │ - Ethics boards & policy guidelines │ │ - Free red-teaming labor for tech firms│ │ - "Fixing" biased algorithms │ └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘ │ ▼ (Rejected by ASRG) ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ALGORITHMIC SABOTAGE │ │ - Direct tactical disruption │ │ - Data poisoning & infrastructure traps │ │ - De-centering corporate control │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ Challenging "Policy Capture" and Free Labor The is a conspiratorial
It calls for dismantling "algorithmic domination" to create room for social autonomy and egalitarianism. Action-Oriented Solidarity:
: A collaborative tool and writing project dedicated to conceptualizing these resistance strategies. Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!)
The group's foundational texts, including the widely translated Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage , establish that digital architecture is not neutral. Instead, it is an active mechanism of classification, control, and exploitation. To counteract this, ASRG advocates for prefigurative techno-political strategies—building alternative systems while actively disabling or complicating oppressive ones. Core Methodologies: Poisoning, Traps, and Disruptions
Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group - Our Collaborative Tools
Behind her, the stenciled motto seemed to flicker in the low light: Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
The ASRG's manifesto has become a touchstone for a growing, decentralized community. An international call was issued for its translation, leading to versions in multiple languages, including Greek, German, French, and Basque.
The is a conspiratorial, aesthetico-political, and practice-led research framework that explores the intersection of digital culture, information technology, and militant political agency. Operating as an anonymous or collective entity, the group focuses on conceptualizing and implementing "algorithmic sabotage" as a form of techno-disobedience and artistic activism against what they describe as "necropolitical technologies" and structural injustices. Core Philosophy and the "Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage"
In a controlled study, the ASRG demonstrated how a social media recommendation engine could be sabotaged to gradually "cool" engagement for a specific political demographic—not by censoring them, but by subtly delaying the delivery of notifications and replies. Users didn’t leave the platform; they simply became 40% less active over three months. This slow-motion sabotage was invisible to standard A/B tests.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ TRADITIONAL TECH-REFORMISM │ │ - Ethics boards & policy guidelines │ │ - Free red-teaming labor for tech firms│ │ - "Fixing" biased algorithms │ └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘ │ ▼ (Rejected by ASRG) ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ALGORITHMIC SABOTAGE │ │ - Direct tactical disruption │ │ - Data poisoning & infrastructure traps │ │ - De-centering corporate control │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ Challenging "Policy Capture" and Free Labor
It calls for dismantling "algorithmic domination" to create room for social autonomy and egalitarianism. Action-Oriented Solidarity:
: A collaborative tool and writing project dedicated to conceptualizing these resistance strategies. Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!)