Remi Technoskepticism Promo Raw
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Remi Yergeau: [00:00:00] Hi, I'm Remi Yergeau, and I'm one of the co authors of Technoskepticism. This is Loki, who is also a co author of Technoskepticism. 

One of the central claims we're making is, if you desire diagnosis, go for it. And in part it's a response to a lot of the panic that's emerged over the past couple years around teenagers self diagnosing on TikTok, I get questions why we hold primacy to medical models in certain contexts around the politics of diagnosis.

Diagnosis is unto itself becoming more automated, or, your passive engagement with your smartphone could be the future of a depression diagnosis, and so there's a way in which that whole process of diagnosis, even though it's already fraught, With agency and passivity and the role of the patient in the medical encounter is becoming even more increasingly fraught at scale.

Partly what we were doing was saying if you feel an affinity with a disability community, then explore that [00:01:00] affinity, which is running against a lot of the panic that's happening in the media.