Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor
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Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure
Astra Taylor
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Astra Taylor to discuss how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself, the way tech is used to make us more insecure, and what it will take to change that.
Guest
Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and political organizer. She’s the author of The Age of Insecurity and co-founder of the Debt Collective. Her next book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, comes out in March.
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Links
- Astra wrote about the Insecurity Machine for Logic Magazine and the Dads of Tech for The Baffler.
- Find excerpts from The Age of Insecurity in The New York Times and The Walrus.
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