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SUMMARY:Digital Technology and Neoliberalism: the Basics – London – 6th
  July 2017
DESCRIPTION:Interrogating Digital Capitalism: A series of monthly events qu
 estioning liberal ideas of progress through technology\nDigital technology
  powers neoliberal capitalism: it is central to globalisation\, financiali
 sation\, the ‘flexible economy’\, ongoing waves of automation and now\
 , ‘big data capitalism’.\n\nLiberals and many leftists assume that the
  problem is not the technology\, but its abuse by corporations\, the milit
 ary and the state. But what if we are in a techno-social regime\, in which
  these interests shape technology – and technology\, in turn\, shapes ca
 pitalism in a way that reinforces itself?\n\nWhat if we are in a digital t
 echnocracy in which cybernetic principles of information capture and flexi
 ble control are becoming embedded throughout society? What if it is not ju
 st a matter of ‘rescuing the digital baby from the capitalist bathwater
 ’?\n\nJoin us at this series of monthly events looking at current challe
 nges raised by digital capitalism.\nEvent 1 - Digital Technology and Neoli
 beralism: the Basics\nJuly 6th 2017\, 7.15pm.  Apple Tree pub function roo
 m. 45 Mount Pleasant\, Clerkenwell\, London WC1X 0AE\nWe apologise that du
 e to a double booking by the previous venue\, this event has been moved to
  the function room in the Lucas Arms Pub\, 245A Grays Inn Road\, WC1X 8QY.
  The meeting will be starting at 7.45pm in order to give you time to get t
 here.  We apologise again for the inconvenience.\n\nHow does digital techn
 ology function in\, and shape\, neoliberal capitalism?\n\nIs it just a que
 stion of corporations using technology to their advantage\, or has digital
  technology fundamentally reshaped the whole system?\n\nAre we already\, a
 s a key anarchist critique 'The Cybernetic Hypothesis' suggests\, enmeshed
  in a control system in which conventional resistance just strengthens the
  system?\n\nUrsula Huws of the University of Hertfordshire will describe t
 he nuts and bolts of how digital capitalism works.\n\nRichard Hall of De M
 ontfort University will look at a critique of digital capitalism developed
  by French anarchists in the 1990s.\n\n 	Free/donation only\n 	7.15pm\, 7.
 45pm July 6th 2017\n 	Apple Tree pub function room. 45 Mount Pleasant\, Cl
 erkenwell\, London WC1X 0AE. Lucas Arms Pub function room\, 245A Grays Inn
  Road\, WC1X 8QY\n\nWe apologise that this venue has no wheelchair access.
  Other events will be at accessible venues.\n\nFor more information contac
 t info@breakingtheframe.org.uk
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