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Tag Archives: Capitalism
Digital technology and automation: the end of capitalism or a new Lucas Plan? – November 2017 – Audio
Digital technology-driven automation and restructuring has been ongoing since the 1960s, most notoriously in the destruction of the printers’ unions by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s. Now, the impending ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is creating widespread public anxiety about massive job … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, Capitalism, Digital technology, Events, Neoliberalism, Robotics, Technocracy, Technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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Digital Technology as Heavy Industrial Technology: iSlavery and Environmental Destruction — September 2017 — Videos
Digital technology is often seen as ‘immaterial’ and ‘smart’, defining a new industrial and social paradigm. Yet digital gadgets are produced within an ‘old-fashioned’ highly exploitative regime that has been likened to slavery, whilst the industry creates massive environmental destruction … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Digital technology, Environment, Events, Exploitation, Industrialism, Neoliberalism
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Digital Technology and Neoliberalism: the Basics – July 2017 – videos
How does digital technology function in, and shape, neoliberal capitalism? Is it just a question of corporations using technology to their advantage, or has digital technology fundamentally reshaped the whole system? Are we already, as a key anarchist critique ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Capitalism, Cybernetics, Digital technology, Events, London, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Power, Social control, Technocracy, Technology, Videos
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Big data: state, corporate and social surveillance – London – NEW DATE TBC
Interrogating Digital Capitalism: A series of monthly events questioning liberal ideas of progress through technology Digital technology powers neoliberal capitalism: it is central to globalisation, financialisation, the ‘flexible economy’, ongoing waves of automation and now, ‘big data capitalism’. Liberals and … Continue reading
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Tagged Authoritarianism, Big data, Capitalism, Digital technology, Events, London, Social control, Surveillance, Technocracy, Technology
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Digital Technology as Heavy Industrial Technology: iSlavery and Environmental Destruction – London – 6th September 2017
Interrogating Digital Capitalism: A series of monthly events questioning liberal ideas of progress through technology Digital technology powers neoliberal capitalism: it is central to globalisation, financialisation, the ‘flexible economy’, ongoing waves of automation and now, ‘big data capitalism’. Liberals and … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Digital technology, Environment, Events, London, Robotics, Work
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Digital Technology and Neoliberalism: the Basics – London – July 6th 2017
Interrogating Digital Capitalism: A series of monthly events questioning liberal ideas of progress through technology Digital technology powers neoliberal capitalism: it is central to globalisation, financialisation, the ‘flexible economy’, ongoing waves of automation and now, ‘big data capitalism’. Liberals and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Capitalism, Cybernetics, Digital technology, Events, London, Neoliberalism, Power, Technocracy, Technology
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Public meeting – The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans – Jan 2014 – report
The January Breaking the Frame café discussion focussed on ‘alternative’ approaches to technology development by green and left movements but, as Patrick Mulvaney, who is an advisor to Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group; ITDG) pointed out, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Biotechnology, Capitalism, Climate change, E F Schumacher, Environment, Events, Food, Illich, Industrialism, International Development, La Vie Campesina, Lucas Plan, Luddism, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Nuclear power, Practical Action, Socialism, Synthetic biology, Technocracy, Technofixes, Technology, Unions, Work
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Public meeting – Financial Crisis and Austerity: the Role of Technology – Oct 2013 – report
October 14th saw the largest attendance so far at a BTF meeting. Due to two speakers having to pull out shortly before the event, Dave King of Luddites200 stood in for them. The first talk was on the causes of … Continue reading