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Tag Archives: Digital technology
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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Race, Gender and Digital Capitalism – 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 Digital technology, Discrimination, Events, Feminism, Gender, London, Patriarchy, Pornography, Race, Racism, Sexism
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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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Of cakes and bakeries: the Lucas Plan and the politics of technology – part 2
The Lucas Plan: running the bakery This is the second of a two-part post looking at the Lucas Plan and the politics of technology. The first part looks at the context of the Lucas Plan in union struggles around technology … Continue reading
Women and the Politics of Digital Technologies – London – 25th June 2016
Breaking the Frame Women’s Group presents: Women and the Politics of Digital Technologies Feminist Library London, 11am – 9pm This event will focus on the relationship between women and digital technologies, including topics such as online abuse and pornography, sex … Continue reading
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Tagged Digital technology, Events, Feminism, Gender, London, Online abuse, Pornography, The Feminist Library
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Email Encryption for Beginners – Bristol – 22nd Jan 2016
Friday 22nd January, 7:30-8:30 Hydra bookshop, Old Market, Bristol An ordinary e-mail is like a postcard without an envelope: anybody who can put their hands on it can read it. Unlike a postcard, an email is copied (rather than moved) … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Bristol, Digital technology, Encryption, Events, Journalism, Snooper's charter, Snowden, Surveillance, Technology, Unions
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