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Tag Archives: Technocracy
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 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 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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TTIP day of action – Oct 2014 – videos
Here are some videos from the TTIP day of action 2014: John Hilary – War on Want David Babbs – 38 Degrees Ludovica Rogers – Occupy London Sam Lowe – Friends Of the Earth Tracy Worcester – Pig Pledge … Continue reading
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Tagged 38 Degrees, Austerity, Events, Global Women's Strike, London, Neoliberalism, NHS, Occupy London, Protest, Technocracy, Trade agreements, TTIP, Unite the Youth, Videos, War on Want
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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 – 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
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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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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