Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech w/ Gavin Mueller
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Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech
Gavin Mueller
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Gavin Mueller to discuss who the Luddites really were, what they can teach us about how we think about technology today, and why they show the need for a decelerationist politics of the future.
Guest
Gavin Mueller is the author of “Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job.” He’s also a lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine. Follow Gavin on Twitter as @gavinmuellerphd.
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Links
- An excerpt of Gavin’s book was recently published in Logic Magazine, and previously criticized fully automated luxury communism.
- Gavin recommends E.P Thompson’s “The Making of the English Working Class”
- Courts ruled that Uber drivers in the UK are workers, and Deliveroo couriers in Amsterdam are employees.