“The backlash against U.S. tech companies, and global market dependencies on the American tech stack, is part of a broader recognition that technology is not neutral, and the companies that produce and shape this ecosystem have social and political interests in addition to their financial interests”
Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear.
Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the deeper political economy that shapes the digital domain and, by extension, every facet of modern life -ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Security: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart "Smart, urgent, and bluntly powerful, this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand how technology gets made — and whom it's made to serve. The time for a thunderous new Luddite politics is now and Sadowski's accessible manifesto delivers" -BRIAN MERCHANT, author of flood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Sadowski's crisp and active prose generously illuminates technology's relationship to flows of money and power and the whims of those who wield them." MEREDITH WHITTAKER, Chief Advisor and Cofounder, Al Now Institute JATHAN SADOWSKI is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is author of Too Smart and host of the podcast This Machine Kills
Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism
Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...
Your AI chatbot isn’t your friend. It’s a group chat with every data analyst, advertiser, and future subpoena. There are more private options out there, and they're getting good.
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Trump has pardoned billionaire crypto mogul and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who pled guilty to money laundering charges.
This comes after Zhao helped prop up Trump’s family crypto business.
Trump’s crypto corruption is off the charts. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=5EwStmYLCoIwvSV1
Ah yes, let's once again trust this corporation's pinky promise to respect your privacy and humanity 😵💫
It’s proprietary software - what do you really think they're doing with your data versus what they say they're doing?
Cory Doctorow winning a Nobel prize for speaking truth in real time
Let's clear this up because I have learned friends who have expressed this sentiment:
"Nothing to hide" is a trap. Privacy is a right, not a crime.
source: privacyguides.org/en
Crikey's Anton Nilsson was one of several dozen journalists who traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to plan a global investigative series into the lobbying tactis of big tech. Here's how the project took shape.
