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Tag Archives: Environment
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 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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Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Lucas Plan
Together with trade unionists and organisations from the peace and environment movements, Breaking The Frame is helping to organise the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lucas Plan. The Lucas Plan was a pioneering effort by workers at … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms trade, Automation, Environment, Events, Lucas Plan, Military technology, Peace, Renewable energy, Robotics, Trident, Unions
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Nuclear power – Bristol – 26th Feb 2016
Friday 26th February, 7:30-9:00 Hydra bookshop, Old Market, Bristol With guest speaker Nikki Clark from South West Against Nuclear [TBC] Come along and take part in some really stimulating discussion, learn about local campaigns and examine the deeper implications of … Continue reading
The military use of radioactive and toxic metals and the consequences for public health – Bristol – 12th Feb 2016
Friday 12th February, 7:30-9:00 Hydra bookshop, Old Market, Bristol With guest speaker Jo Baker Come along and take part in some really stimulating discussion, learn about local campaigns and examine the deeper implications of emerging and current technologies within our … Continue reading
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Tagged Bristol, Environment, Events, Health, Military technology
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Global Energy Politics and Policy – Bristol – 29th Jan 2016
Friday 29nd January, 7:30-9:00 Hydra bookshop, Old Market, Bristol With guest speaker Nikki Jones Come along and take part in some really stimulating discussion, learn about local campaigns and examine the deeper implications of emerging and current technologies within our … Continue reading
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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Breaking the Frame Gathering – Derbyshire – July 9-12 2015
BREAKING THE FRAME 2: Second Gathering on the Politics of Technology, July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire. Book Online SITE MOBILE NUMBER 07591058499 Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others Come to BTF2 for a fresh conversation … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate technology, Derbyshire, Energy, Environment, Events, Food, Gathering, GCHQ, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Military technology, Mining, Privacy, Social control, Technocracy, Technology, Unions, Work
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Breaking the Frame Gathering – Derbyshire – May 2nd-5th 2014
The Breaking the Frame gathering is less than a week away. If you’re interested in coming, and especially if you want a bed in the house, we would prefer you to book your place. However, if you have to leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Derbyshire, Economics, Energy, Environment, Events, Food, Gathering, Gender, Health, Peace, Technology
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