Thinking sabotage in the age of digital capitalism

This article argues that sabotage, an act of resistance which consists in damaging, disrupting or subverting the operations of a machine or an organization, adapts to each institutional form of capitalism by developing new tactics. Three types of sabotage are introduced to explore this practice in the current age of digital capitalism: classic sabotage, subtle sabotage, and resistance to techno-sciences. While the first type of sabotage is tending to disappear from the workplace, the second type consists in the reappropriation of digital tools for alternative purposes. Resistance to techno-sciences is the sabotage of the cybernetic ideality associated with new algorithmic machines, including the right to disconnect and the practices of non-use of digital technologies.