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- Nuclear Power: Climate Chiller or Silent Killer? - August 12th 2013
- Gender and the politics of technology - September 9th 2013
- Economic crisis and austerity: the Role of Technology - October 14th 2013
- Food, GM and synthetic biology - November 11th 2013
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Tag Archives: Feminism
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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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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Breaking the Frame Gathering – July 2015 – videos and audio recordings
July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire. Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others. Opening comments Dave King opening & Jim Thomas from ETC Group on Skype Panel discussion: Dave King, Dave Derby and Barbara Jones 1: Dave … Continue reading
Women’s Gathering on Gender and the Politics of Technology – March 2015 – audio recordings
At the first Breaking the Frame gathering in 2014, women started developing a feminist analysis of the intersection between gender and the politics of technology and how it impacts on all aspects of our lives, e.g. in food production, work, … Continue reading
Breaking the Frame Gathering – May 2014 – videos and reports
May 2nd to 5th 2014, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire Skip to videos Over Mayday bank holiday weekend a wide range of environmental, workplace and social activists met at The Breaking the Frame gathering, to discuss how different technologies impact our lives … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Derbyshire, Econexus, Events, Feminism, Gathering, Gender, Luddism, Luddites200, No Dash for Gas, Nuclear power, Red Pepper Magazine, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Socialism, Stop Hinkley Campaign, Technocracy, Technology, The Land Magazine, TTIP, Unions, Videos
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Public meeting – Gender and the Politics of Technology – Sept 2013 – report
The third Breaking the Frame meeting again generated a very lively debate. Well-known author and campaigner, Cynthia Cockburn, introduced the discussion, focusing on technology and work, and how it creates not only social class but also gender roles. Typically women … Continue reading
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Tagged Biotechnology, Commercial surrogacy, Egg donation, Eugenics, Events, Feminism, Gender, GM, Human Genetics, International Development, IVF, London, Monsanto, Reproductive technologies, Sex selection, Technocracy, Technology, Women’s Environmental Network, Work
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Women’s Gathering – London – 28th & 29th March 2015
At the first Breaking the Frame gathering in 2014, women started developing a feminist analysis of the intersection between gender and the politics of technology and how it impacts on all aspects of our lives, e.g. in food production, work, … Continue reading
Breaking the Frame programme of events 2013-14
Technology dominates our world, but many people think ‘its just a neutral tool’ or that technology = progress. Although it does bring some benefits, most technology designed and controlled by corporate, military and technocratic elites to serve their interests and … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate technology, Arms trade, Article 36, Austerity, Bhopal, Big pharma, Biofuelwatch, Cancer, Corporate Watch, Digital technology, Drones, E F Schumacher, Econexus, Economic crisis, Eugenics, Events, Feminism, Food, Fracking, Gender, Geoengineering, Human Genetics, Killer robots, La Vie Campesina, London, Mental health, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Monsanto, Nanotech, NHS, Nuclear power, Occupy London, Open Rights Group, Poetry, Practical Action, Psychiatry, Social control, Statewatch, Stop Hinkley Campaign, Surveillance, Synthetic biology, Technology
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Technocracy, gender and reproductive technology
David King It is often assumed that the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, liberalism and progress through science are aligned with the liberation of women. Reproductive technologies, as part of medicine are also assumed to be an unalloyed benefit for women, … Continue reading
Gender and Technology
Cynthia Cockburn At the first two events in this series you’ve been looking at technology in relation to militarism, nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Tonight I’m inviting us to focus more on technology in relation to capital, capitalists, companies, what … Continue reading