How to See Tech Like a Luddite
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Jathan Sadowski on the relationship between technology and capitalism.
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How to See Tech Like a Luddite w/ Jathan Sadowski | Tech Won’t Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the relationship between technology and capitalism, and what lessons can be taken from the Luddites to properly assess and understand these systems.
Jathan Sadowski is is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism. He’s also the co-host of This Machine Kills and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.
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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the relationship between technology and capitalism, and what lessons can be taken from the Luddites to properly assess and understand these systems.
Jathan Sadowski is is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism. He’s also the cohost of This Machine Kills and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
Espionage and Empire in the Cold War w/ Alfred McCoy | American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with historian Alfred McCoy about how the Cold War operated as a global conflict influenced by decolonization, covert action, and geopolitical strategy. They discuss the role of individual intelligence operatives as “men on the spot”; Cold War rivalry and the collapse of European empires; how conflicts across Asia, Africa, and Latin America produced much of the war’s violence; the development of U.S. containment strategy and covert action institutions; and Iran as flashpoint in Cold War and post-Cold War geopolitics, and how Alfred interprets these conflicts through a lens of imperial decline and strategic chokepoints like the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz.
Buy Alfred’s book Cold War on Five Continents!
Reading recommendation: The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peaceby Paul Thomas Chamberlin.
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