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Latest podcast episodes about logic magazine

Tech Won't Save Us
The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 53:06


Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss his experience seeing first hand how Microsoft deployed its cloud and machine learning services to help Chevron extract more oil and gas, and the state of tech worker organizing around climate change. JS Tan is a PhD student at MIT, researching cloud computing in the US and China. He's a a member of Collective Action in Tech and writes the Value Added newsletter.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in this episode:Read JS Tan's “Oil Is the New Data” piece in Logic Magazine.Support the show

Tech Won't Save Us
Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2023 63:08 Very Popular


Paris Marx is joined by Astra Taylor to discuss how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself, the way tech is used to make us more insecure, and what it will take to change that. Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and political organizer. She's the author of The Age of Insecurity and co-founder of the Debt Collective. Her next book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, comes out in March. Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.  The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.  Also mentioned in this episode:Astra wrote about the Insecurity Machine for Logic Magazine and the Dads of Tech for The Baffler.Find excerpts from The Age of Insecurity in The New York Times and The Walrus.Become a supporter on Patreon to join our giveaway.Support the show

Future Histories
S02E58 - Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom

Future Histories

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2023 72:49


Søren Mau on how communism can produce freedom through planning.   Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistories-international.com/ and subscribe to the Future Histories International RSS-Feed (English episodes only)   Shownotes Søren Mau: https://sorenmau.com/  Søren auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/sorenmau?lang=de  Mau, Søren. 2019. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Vero Books.: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2759-mute-compulsion  Mau, Søren. 2023. Stummer Zwang. Eine marxistische  Analyse der Macht im Kapitalismus. Karl Diets.: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/stummer-zwang/   Further Shownotes Mau, Søren. 2023. Communism is Freedom. Verso Books.: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/communism-is-freedom Mau, Søren. 2023. Kommunismus ist Freiheit. Jacobin Magazine: https://jacobin.de/artikel/kommunismus-ist-freiheit-demokratie-zukunftsvision-kooperation-ressourcen-soren-mau Pat Devine (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine Karl Marx (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Karl_Marx Marx, Karl. A contribution to the critique of political economy. 1904. Chicago. International Library Publishing Co. (PDF): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf Marx's critique of capitalism (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism Marx, Karl. 1932. The German Ideology. Moscow. Progress Publishers. (PDF): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf Marx, Karl. 1867. Capital. A critique of political economy. Volume 1. English edition 1887. Moscow. Progress Publishers (PDF): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf Robert Brenner (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brenner Political economy (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy Value Theory (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_value_(economics) Aaron Benanav (Website): https://www.aaronbenanav.com/ Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso 2020: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work Benanav, Aaron. 2021. Automatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/aaron-benanav-automatisierung-und-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-t-9783518127704 Benanav, Aaron. 2020. How to Make a Pencil. Logic Magazine, 12 (Open Access): https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/ Devine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. New York: Routledge.: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine Devine, Pat. 2002. Participatory Planning Through Negotiated Coordination. In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1.No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 72-85: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdfplus/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001 Devine, Pat. 2022. Negotiated Coordination and Socialist Democracy. In Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. (Ed.), (En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality. In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications.: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.140 David Laibman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laibman Louis Althusser (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Louis_Althusser Althuser, Louis. Marxism and Humanism. In: Marxist Internet Archive. First appeared in the Cahiers de l'I.S.E.A., June 1964.: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1964/marxism-humanism.htm   Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/ S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ (German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/ (German) S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/ (German) S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Mastodon: @FutureHistories@mstdn.social or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #SørenMau, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Interview, #Freedom, #Communism, #Democracy, #PlannedEconomy, #Necessity, #Organisation, #Work, #EconomicPower, #MuteCompulsion, #StummerZwang, #CommunismIsFreedom, #VersoBooks, #Verso, #DemocraticPlanning

RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS PODCAST
RU251: DR ISABEL MILLAR & DWAYNE MONROE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & AI DOOMERISM

RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 58:36


Rendering Unconscious episode 251. Dr. Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. She is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence published in the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2021, and Patipolitics: On the Government of Sexual Suffering forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023. She is Associate Researcher at Newcastle University, Department of Philosophy, and Research Fellow and Faculty at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies where she lectures with their newly formed Institute of Psychoanalysis and on the MA Philosophy. https://www.isabelmillar.com Dwayne Monroe is a technologist and Marxist analyst of the tech sector with 20 years of experience in North America and Europe. Dwayne uses his hands-on knowledge to critique the nature and characteristics of the industry from a dialectical perspective. He's currently finishing a book, ‘Attack Mannequins' about the AI industry and has written for The Nation, Logic Magazine and Sublation Media. You can follow his blog at https://monroelab.net https://dwaynemonroe.com You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/_54STS6XhtU For more check out: RU239: ISABEL MILLAR & DWAYNE MONROE PRESENT “VIRILIO'S LOST DIMENSIONS: THE PSYCHIC AND THE TECHNICAL” & “FROM SUCCESS COMES FAILURE, ON THE DIALECTICS OF CLOUD COMPUTING” RU188: DWAYNE MONROE – CLOUD ARCHITECT, MARXIST TECH ANALYST, INTERNET POLEMICIST ON AI PROPAGANDA RU137: ISABEL MILLAR ON AI, SEX, CULTURE, FILM & THE FUTURE RU21: ISABEL MILLAR, PHILOSOPHER & LACANIAN SCHOLAR ON PSYCHOANALYSIS & SEX-BOTS Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is “The Unconscious is a Simulacrum” from the album "Indulgence not Abstinence" by Vanessa Sinclair & Pete Murphy: https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Music also available to stream via Spotify & other streaming platforms. Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: Dr. Isabel Millar & Dwayne Monroe

Reimagining the Internet
79 Taking Stock of the Everything Store with Moira Weigel

Reimagining the Internet

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 35:50


For our first ever episode talking about Amazon (somehow?), Logic Magazine co-founder Moira Weigel tells us what she learned about Amazon by spending years interviewing its third-party sellers. From hand sanitizer hoarding to Chinese vendors getting “dragon boated,” Moira gives us a fascinating look at a massive, unregulated economy. Moira Weigel is assistant professor in… Continue reading 79 Taking Stock of the Everything Store with Moira Weigel

Tech Won't Save Us
How Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira Weigel

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2023 68:52


Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company's policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses.Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff. Follow Moira on Twitter at @moiragweigel.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:Moira recently wrote a report for Data & Society looking into Amazon's “trickle-down monopoly,” and previously worked with Ava Kofman and Francis Tseng on research into white nationalist publishing on Amazon.Aiha Nguyen and Eve Zelickson wrote a report on how Ring doorbells are used to surveil delivery workers.Logic Magazine published an interview with an anonymous AWS engineer.In March 2020, an Amazon seller bought 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and tried to price gouge.Marketplace Pulse found that Amazon fees for sellers now account for 51.8% of an average sale, rising from 35.2% in 2016.Amazon is now the third-largest digital advertising company after Google and Facebook.In January, John Herman wrote about the state of Amazon that touched on some of the Chinese brands.Amazon has been scaling back its private label business, in part due to regulatory fears.Books mentioned: Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization by Sarrah Kassem, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang, and The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy by Lin Zhang.Support the show

Money on the Left
Internet for the People with Ben Tarnoff

Money on the Left

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 76:03


Money on the Left is joined by Ben Tarnoff—tech worker, writer, and cofounder of Logic Magazine—about his book Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future (Verso Books, 2022). In his book, Tarnoff provides a comprehensive history and a critical topology of this thing we have come to know, love, hate, swear off, get on, and grow bored of: the Internet. Throughout our conversation, Tarnoff displaces the haphazard history of the Internet that circulates often-unquestioned in our foggy collective memories, helping us to see more clearly how the Internet came to be “so broken.” Tarnoff refuses to accept privatization or the profit motive as given or inevitable. Instead, he evaluates the history of privatization and profiteering from the perspective of public provisioning. He does so, moreover, in order to advocate for heterogeneous public alternatives and cooperative futures. Ultimately, Tarnoff fashions a vision for the future of the Internet as a de-privatized, public space for collective flourishing, which is to say, an “Internet for the People.”Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula: www.nahneenkula.com

KCBS Radio In Depth
How to fix the internet? Make it more like a public library

KCBS Radio In Depth

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2022 28:29


These days, dissatisfaction with the internet is widespread, driven by an array of concerns from rampant hate speech to ubiquitous tracking and data harvesting. So far, most of the solutions that have been put forward involve either new regulations or schemes to break up internet monopolies, but writer Ben Tarnoff says that none of those fixes get at what is in his view the actual root of the problem: that is, that the internet that we have today is made for businesses and not people.  On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we discuss his new book, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future," which lays out his case for taking the internet out of the hands of private enterprise and creating instead an internet that's run by public institutions.  Guest: Ben Tarnoff, co-founder, Logic Magazine | author, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future"  Host: Keith Menconi 

Zero Squared
Episode 431: The Internet vs. The People? (ft. Ben Tarnoff)

Zero Squared

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 56:14


 Ben Tarnoff, a tech writer and co-founder of Logic Magazine joins Douglas Lain to discuss Tarnoff's book "Internet for the People."  From the back of the book:  "In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today."  Support Us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/dietsoap 

Reimagining the Internet
Ben Tarnoff Wants an Internet for the People

Reimagining the Internet

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2022 35:23


Ben Tarnoff has a radical idea: unprivatize the Internet. The writer, Logic Magazine founder, and tech worker activist joins us to talk about his new book outlining what a truly public Internet would look like, from the fiber optic cables to the social media platforms platforms.

Tech Won't Save Us
How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet w/ Dwayne Monroe

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 67:43 Very Popular


Paris Marx is joined by Dwayne Monroe to discuss what it's like to work in a data center, how the cloud came to hold a dominant position, and the consequences of its control by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.Dwayne Monroe is a cloud technologist and aspiring Marxist theorist of technology, with twenty years of experience architecting large-scale computational systems. Follow Dwayne on Twitter at @cloudquistador.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Dwayne wrote about cloud computing for Logic Magazine. He's also written about a public cloud and the metaverse on his blog.Amazon's cloud infrastructure in the eastern United States experienced a major outage in December 2021.Residents in various parts of the world have been questioning the logic of building data centers, including in the United States and New Zealand.In July, the network of Canadian telecom giant Rogers went down, leaving millions without service.Support the show

The Deerfield Public Library Podcast
Queer Poem-a-Day: Arm'd and Fearless by Julian Gewirtz

The Deerfield Public Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 2:50


Julian Gewirtz is the author of YOUR FACE MY FLAG (Copper Canyon Press, forthcoming October 2022 (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/your-face-my-flag-by-julian-gewirtz). His poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Lambda Literary, The Nation, The New Republic, PEN America, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is also the author of two books on the history of modern China, Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s and Unlikely Partners (“a gripping read” –The Economist). He co-edited an issue of Logic Magazine on China and technology and has written essays and reviews for publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, Harper's, Foreign Affairs, Prac Crit, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Copyright © Julian Gewirtz, 2014. A version of this poem was originally published in Conjunctions. Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and teacher Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this second year of our series is the first movement, Schéhérazade, from Masques, Op. 34, by Karol Szymanowski, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission. Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.

Tech Won't Save Us
Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 72:41 Very Popular


Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatize the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed.Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future and the co-founder of Logic Magazine. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bentarnoff.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:An excerpt of Ben's book was published in the New York Times.Victor Pickard wrote about the history of public media in Democracy Without Journalism.Newt Gingrich and George Gilder, once featured by Wired for their visions for the internet, have now become big crypto fans.The United States has terrible broadband access.Major tech companies are buying up undersea internet cables.Tarleton Gillespie wrote about the politics of platforms and what the term suggests.Jathan Sadowski compares platforms to shopping malls.Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote about the predatory inclusion of the internet.Community internet has shown success in the United States, while provincial public telcos have a history of positive outcomes in Canada.Support the show

This Machine Kills
166. Slumlords of the Internet (ft. Ben Tarnoff)

This Machine Kills

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 78:36


We're joined by Ben Tarnoff—author of Internet for the People; co-founder of Logic Magazine—to do some historical materialism on the internet. Ben has a great new book coming out that traces the political economic development of the internet, from its origins as a military network to its privatization via wholesale handover to a telecom oligopoly to its existence today as an archipelago of shopping malls run by slumlords. We then discuss why there's an urgent need for democratizing and demarketizing the internet, what that could look like, and how the seeds of that radical change can already be found in existing projects. ••• Order Ben's book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people ••• Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/bentarnoff ••• Read Logic Magazine: https://logicmag.io/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Tech Won't Save Us
How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid w/ ann haeyoung

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 50:21


Paris Marx is joined by ann haeyoung to discuss IBM worker organizing in the 1970s and 1980s against racism and apartheid, and how those stories are important to informing tech organizing in the present.ann haeyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. She is also a former tech worker and organizer, and a graduate student at UCLA.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:ann wrote about IBM organizing for Wired, and put together a four-part series on her research for Tech Workers Coalition.Science for the People published an article about tech worker organizing in the 1960s and 1970s.Logic Magazine spoke to Joan Greenbaum about the early days of tech worker organizing.Support the show

Haymarket Books Live
Transformative Justice and Knowledge Production in Tech

Haymarket Books Live

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 92:01


Join contributors to the special edition of Logic Magazine, Beacons, for a discussion on Transformative Justice and Knowledge Production in Tech Techno-capitalism is re-negotiating the social contract but knowledge about technologies is too often sequestered behind the lock doors of industry. Black women researchers like Dr. Timnit Gebru who raised alarm about the racial and ecological implications of emergent technologies are systematically silenced and forced out. Additionally, corporate capture of academic departments has even further limited the space to do critical research. Given these obstacles, how can researchers both inside and outside of tech companies do the difficult work of research, critique, and resistance? When individualist opportunism is the guiding norm of knowledge production, how do we cultivate a practice of transformative justice in the context of tech research? What are the set of tools and collective histories Black people in the Americas and the Black global diaspora can draw on in order to care for each other in the process of producing research about tech? Get the new issue of Logic Magazine, Beacons, here: https://logicmag.io Speakers: Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the “Genius Award”) for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination, which prompted her founding of a non-profit, Equity Engine, to accelerate investment in companies, education, and networks driven by women of color. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI, and is on the board of AddisCoder, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian highschool students, free of charge. Moderator: J Khadijah Abdurahman is an abolitionist whose research focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. They are the founder of We Be Imagining, a public interest technology project at Columbia University's INCITE Center and The American Assembly's Democracy and Trust Program. They are a Tech Impact Fellow at UCLA C2I2, co-founder of The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism alongside Sucheta Ghoshal's Inquilab at the University of Washington, HCDE. Recent edited publications include Logic Magazine: Beacons and ACM Interactions: Unmaking Democracy. This event is sponsored by Logic Magazine and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/WqAMkmX9AuE Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Haymarket Books Live
Between the Black Radical Tradition and the Digital w/ Logic Magazine

Haymarket Books Live

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2022 102:51


Join contributors to the special edition of Logic Magazine, Beacons, for a discussion on Black freedom and technology. What would it mean to take the Black internet seriously? How do we call in Black studies scholars to imagining technologies of black freedoms in addition to grappling with the racial regimes wrought by artificial intelligence and machine learning models? The dominant approach to mis/disinformation is policing, reporting and suspending individual users but what if we oriented towards abolition and affirming black joy? What can the black radical tradition offer in addressing new modes of surveillance and social control that begin from black indigineity instead of reinscribing the nation state? Contributors to special edition of Logic Magazine, in partnership with We Be Imagining, Beacons: Andre Brock and SA Smythe will be in conversation with Zoé Samudzi. Moderated by J. Khadijah Abdurahman. Get the new issue of Logic Magazine, Beacons, here: https://logicmag.io --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: SA Smythe (they / them) is a poet, translator, and assistant professor of Black European Cultural Studies, Contemporary Mediterranean Studies, and Black Trans Poetics at UCLA, where they research relational aspects of Black belonging beyond borders. They are a Senior Fellow at theCenter for Applied Transgender Studies and editor of Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity, a special issue for Postmodern Culture. Winner of the 2022 Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies, Smythe is currently based between Rome and Tongva Land (Los Angeles). André Brock (@docdre) is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media & Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black Cyberculture. His work bridges Science and Technology Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, showing how the communicative affordances of online media align with those of Black communication practices. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. He is the author of Distributed Blackness: African-American Cyberculture. Zoé Samudzi has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco where she is a postdoctoral fellow in the ACTIONS Program. She is co-author of As Black as Resistance, guest editor of the September-October 2021 issue of The Funambulist titled "Against Genocide," and a writer whose work has appeared in The New Republic, The New Inquiry, Hyperallergic, Jewish Currents, and other outlets. J. Khadijah Abdurahman (she/they/any) is an abolitionist whose research focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. They are the founder of We Be Imagining, a public interest technology project at Columbia University's INCITE Center and The American Assembly's Democracy and Trust Program. WBI draws on the Black radical tradition to develop public technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations. Khadijah is co-leading the Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism alongside Sucheta Ghoshal's Inquilab at the University of Washington, HCDE. Their report examining the role of tech in mass atrocities in Ethiopia is forthcoming. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Logic Magazine and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/kiuv7W4gNqo Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Fermented Feelings ft. Rad Café Reflections, by The SEAD Project
Rad Café 04: "Techno-Optimism for No-Bodies" ft. Chris Phan

Fermented Feelings ft. Rad Café Reflections, by The SEAD Project

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 55:08


ຂອບໃຈ. cảm ơn. ua tsaug. អរគុណ. thank you for listening. View Chris's research doc on the politics of U.S deportation, assimilation, and nation-state imagination Mentioned: Sidewalk Labs website, Logic Magazine, Alphabet Workers Union, Project Maven More about what happened in Rad Café can be found on this Rad Café Notion summary page. Share this SEAD's Rad Café webpage with your network, for those who are more comfortable with websites than podcast apps. Recorded Nov 1st 2021. Explicit language was permitted for each Rad Café conversation. You are listening to Tri's conversation with Rad Café participant, Chris Phan (she/her pronouns). Chris is trained in computer sciences and urban planning with a recent serial emphasis of professional involvement in Asian American non-profit work. Her big-picture interests include the ongoing impact of tech industries and policy on the social, political, and economic lives of BIPoC peoples living in the states. She is a recent mom to a large reptile. Episode overview to be added soon. Enjoy the conversation between Chris and Tri in the meantime :) Please send any inquiries regarding Rad Café to Tri (he/all pronouns) at tri.m.vo4@gmail.com or connect via Instagram @tritactoe. Send inquiries regarding The SEAD Project to hi@theseadproject.org. Throw Rad Café lots of love by going into your iTunes or Apple Podcast app and rating Fermented Feelings 5 stars!!

Future Histories International
Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning

Future Histories International

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 112:45


A world without scarcity is possible for everybody! Aaron Benanav shares his idea of how we could achieve this associational utopia, today.Collaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578 ShownotesAaron Benanav's Website:https://www.aaronbenanav.com/Aaron on Twitter:https://twitter.com/abenanavBenanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso 2020:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-workBenanav, Aaron. 2021. Automatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp:https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/aaron-benanav-automatisierung-und-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-t-9783518127704Benanav, Aaron. 2020. How to Make a Pencil. Logic Magazine, 12 (Open Access):https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/Benanav, Aaron. 2021. Service Work in the Pandemic Economy. International Labor and Working Class History, 99, 66–74 (Open Access):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346189424_Service_Work_in_the_Pandemic_EconomyBenanav, Aaron. 2020. A World Without Work? Dissent (New York), 67(4), 45–52 (Open Access):https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-world-without-workTitles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Neurath, Otto. 2005 [1925]. Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind. In: Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945 (pp. 405-465), Vienna Circle Collection, Dordrecht: Springer:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14UBI (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_incomeNew Keynesianism (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Keynesian_economicsPat Devine (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_DevineFikret Adaman at the Istanbul Policy Center:https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/fikret-adaman-2da26aAdaman, F. and  Devine, P. 1996. "The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Socialists", In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20, 523-537 (Open Access):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5208068_The_Economic_Calculation_Debate_Lessons_for_SocialistsMariana Mazzucato:https://marianamazzucato.com/Mechanism design (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_designHayek, F. A. 2011 [1945]. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. Mises Daily Articles (Open Access):https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-societyHayek, F. A. 2005. "Economics and Knowledge". Mises Daily Articles (Open Access):https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledgeHayek, F. A. 2011 [1936]. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge (Open Access):https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdfPeter Kropotkin (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_KropotkinFriedrich Engels (WIki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_EngelsKarl Marx (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_MarxPodcasts episodes with Aaron other than Future Histories:NovaraFM Podcast, "After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation, and Utopia":https://novaramedia.com/2020/12/18/after-the-robots-aaron-benanav-on-work-automation-and-utopia/Tech Won't Save Us Podcast, "Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation ft. Aaron Benanav":https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jobs-suck-but-not-because-of-automation-w-aaron-benanav/id1507621076?i=1000497390727Aufhebungabunga Podcast, "It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti":https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/e/149-its-not-robots-its-capitalism-ft-liz-pancotti-aaron-benanav/ Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt. 1 & 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/(German) S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Herrmann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/(German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Automation, #AutomationAndTheFutureOfWork, #FullEmployment, #AWorldWithoutWork, #ServiceWorkInThePandemicEconomy, #UBS, #UBI, #UniversalBasicIncome, #UniversalBasicServices, #BGE, #BedingungslosesGrundeinkommen, #Arbeitspolitik, #Planwirtschaft, #Society, #Democracy, #Communism, #Planarchy, #SocialistCalculationDebate, #Hayek, #Marx, #KarlMarx, #PlanningDebate, #DigitalSocialism, #Socialism, #PlannedEconomy, #AssociationalSocialism,#DemocraticPlanning

Future Histories International
Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning

Future Histories International

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 112:45


A world without scarcity is possible for everybody! Aaron Benanav shares his idea of how we could achieve this associational utopia, today.Collaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578 ShownotesAaron Benanav's Website:https://www.aaronbenanav.com/Aaron on Twitter:https://twitter.com/abenanavBenanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso 2020:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-workBenanav, Aaron. 2021. Automatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp:https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/aaron-benanav-automatisierung-und-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-t-9783518127704Benanav, Aaron. 2020. How to Make a Pencil. Logic Magazine, 12 (Open Access):https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/Benanav, Aaron. 2021. Service Work in the Pandemic Economy. International Labor and Working Class History, 99, 66–74 (Open Access):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346189424_Service_Work_in_the_Pandemic_EconomyBenanav, Aaron. 2020. A World Without Work? Dissent (New York), 67(4), 45–52 (Open Access):https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-world-without-workTitles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode:Neurath, Otto. 2005 [1925]. Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind. In: Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945 (pp. 405-465), Vienna Circle Collection, Dordrecht: Springer:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14UBI (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_incomeNew Keynesianism (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Keynesian_economicsPat Devine (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_DevineFikret Adaman at the Istanbul Policy Center:https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/fikret-adaman-2da26aAdaman, F. and  Devine, P. 1996. "The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Socialists", In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20, 523-537 (Open Access):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5208068_The_Economic_Calculation_Debate_Lessons_for_SocialistsMariana Mazzucato:https://marianamazzucato.com/Mechanism design (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_designHayek, F. A. 2011 [1945]. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. Mises Daily Articles (Open Access):https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-societyHayek, F. A. 2005. "Economics and Knowledge". Mises Daily Articles (Open Access):https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledgeHayek, F. A. 2011 [1936]. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge (Open Access):https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdfPeter Kropotkin (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_KropotkinFriedrich Engels (WIki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_EngelsKarl Marx (Wiki):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_MarxPodcasts episodes with Aaron other than Future Histories:NovaraFM Podcast, "After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation, and Utopia":https://novaramedia.com/2020/12/18/after-the-robots-aaron-benanav-on-work-automation-and-utopia/Tech Won't Save Us Podcast, "Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation ft. Aaron Benanav":https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jobs-suck-but-not-because-of-automation-w-aaron-benanav/id1507621076?i=1000497390727Aufhebungabunga Podcast, "It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti":https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/e/149-its-not-robots-its-capitalism-ft-liz-pancotti-aaron-benanav/ Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/;https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt. 1 & 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/;https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/(German) S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E38 | Ulrike Herrmann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/(German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/(German) S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Automation, #AutomationAndTheFutureOfWork, #FullEmployment, #AWorldWithoutWork, #ServiceWorkInThePandemicEconomy, #UBS, #UBI, #UniversalBasicIncome, #UniversalBasicServices, #BGE, #BedingungslosesGrundeinkommen, #Arbeitspolitik, #Planwirtschaft, #Society, #Democracy, #Communism, #Planarchy, #SocialistCalculationDebate, #Hayek, #Marx, #KarlMarx, #PlanningDebate, #DigitalSocialism, #Socialism, #PlannedEconomy, #AssociationalSocialism,#DemocraticPlanning

Future Histories
S02E10 - Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning

Future Histories

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 112:45


A world without scarcity is possible for everybody! Aaron Benanav shares his idea of how we could achieve this associational utopia, today. Collaborative Podcast Transcription: If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: transkription@futurehistories.today (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes Aaron Benanav's Website: https://www.aaronbenanav.com/ Aaron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abenanav Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso 2020: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work Benanav, Aaron. 2021. Automatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/aaron-benanav-automatisierung-und-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-t-9783518127704 Benanav, Aaron. 2020. How to Make a Pencil. Logic Magazine, 12 (Open Access): https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/ Benanav, Aaron (2021). Service Work in the Pandemic Economy. International Labor and Working Class History, 99, 66–74 (Open Access): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346189424_Service_Work_in_the_Pandemic_Economy Benanav, Aaron. (2020). A World Without Work? Dissent (New York), 67(4), 45–52 (Open Access): https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-world-without-work Titles, names and concepts mentioned in this episode: Neurath, Otto. (2005). Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind. In: Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945 (pp. 405-465), Vienna Circle Collection, Dordrecht: Springer: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14 UBI (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income New Keynesianism (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Keynesian_economics Pat Devine (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine Fikret Adaman at the Istanbul Policy Center: https://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/en/fikret-adaman-2da26a Adaman, F. and  Devine, P. (1996). "The Economic Calculation Debate: Lessons for Socialists", In: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20, 523-537 (Open Access): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5208068_The_Economic_Calculation_Debate_Lessons_for_Socialists Mariana Mazzucato: https://marianamazzucato.com/ Mechanism design (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design Hayek, F. A. 2011. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. Mises Daily Articles (Open Access): https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-society Hayek, F. A. 2005. "Economics and Knowledge". Mises Daily Articles (Open Access): https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledge Hayek, F. A. 1963. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge (Open Access): https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdf Peter Kropotkin (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin Friedrich Engels (WIki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels Karl Marx (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Podcasts episodes with Aaron other than Future Histories: NovaraFM Podcast, "After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation, and Utopia": https://novaramedia.com/2020/12/18/after-the-robots-aaron-benanav-on-work-automation-and-utopia/ Tech Won't Save Us Podcast, "Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation ft. Aaron Benanav": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jobs-suck-but-not-because-of-automation-w-aaron-benanav/id1507621076?i=1000497390727 Aufhebungabunga Podcast, "It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti": https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/e/149-its-not-robots-its-capitalism-ft-liz-pancotti-aaron-benanav/   Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: S01E31/32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (pt. 1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ S01E44/45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (pt. 1 & 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/; https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ (German) S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/ (German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) S01E38 | Ulrike Herrmann zu kapitalistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e38-ulrike-herrmann-zu-kapitalistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ (German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/ (German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/ (German) S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Automation, #AutomationAndTheFutureOfWork, #FullEmployment, #AWorldWithoutWork, #ServiceWorkInThePandemicEconomy, #UBS, #UBI, #UniversalBasicIncome, #UniversalBasicServices, #BGE, #BedingungslosesGrundeinkommen, #Arbeitspolitik, #Planwirtschaft, #Society, #Democracy, #Communism, #Planarchy, #SocialistCalculationDebate, #Hayek, #Marx, #KarlMarx, #PlanningDebate, #DigitalSocialism, #Socialism, #PlannedEconomy, #AssociationalSocialism,#DemocraticPlanning

Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of psychotherapists were forced to migrate their practice to teletherapy or secure video.  While many have embraced this new mode of practice and have even found enhancements to their delivery of therapy, others are eager to return to the office or adopt a hybrid model.  Dr. Hannah Zeavin, author of the The Distance Cure: A History Teletherapy, joins us for a conversation around the history of teletherapy as well as systems-level implications for the wide adoption of teletherapy. In this conversation we cover:     the biggest misconceptions that psychotherapists are likely to labouring under with respect to the history and deployment of teletherapya discussion of the reality of every therapeutic exchange - whether virtual, in the office or otherwise - being mediated in some respect and existing within a "frame"the evidence-base around teletherapy3rd party payers stance towards teletherapy and whether a distinction between in-office therapy and teletherapy remains relevantthe dysfunctional focus on "activities" vs "outcomes" in an insurance-driven mental health system and how teletherapy could unwittingly accentuate this dynamicconsideration of therapy-process related factors in the context of teletherapy (e.g., client seeing the clinician within their home environment & vice versa)implications of the the appification/commodification of mental health services via digital platformsthe dangers of "batch processing" and "gamification" in the provision of therapy within a commodified mental health systemthe potential for the digital distribution of services to create “winner takes all” outcomes and the danger of a cost leader further commodifying mental health via call-center models or similarPotential unintended consequences of national licensure around the commodification of mental health services Dr. Zeavin's thoughts on the questions clinicians and practices should be grappling with right now in the context of tele therapyHannah Zeavin is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at the University of California, Berkeley and is on the Executive Committee of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Additionally, she is a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference. Dr. Zeavin's first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters. She is at work on her second book, Mother's Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (MIT Press, 2023).  Dr. Zeavin serves as an Editorial Associate for The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is a co-founder of The STS Futures Initiative. Other work has appeared in or is forthcoming from American Imago, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Life Magazine, Slate, The Washington Post, Logic Magazine, and beyond. Dr. Zeavin received her B.A. from Yale University in 2012 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2018.https://www.zeavin.org/

The Received Wisdom
Episode 18: Risk, Freedom, and the Power of Tech Labor ft. Ben Tarnoff

The Received Wisdom

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2021 68:57


Jack and Shobita talk about her recent experiences giving Congressional testimony about equity in energy innovation, question the meaning of Freedom Day in the UK, puzzle over the FDA's recent approval of a new Alzheimer's drug, and interview Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine, about tech worker organizing.- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy, "Fostering Equity in Energy Innovation", July 16, 2021. Written testimony here.- Sheila Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Harvard University Press, 1998.- Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What they Do and Why they Do It. FSG Originals, 2020.- Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Silicon Valley Workers Have Had Enough," The New York Times, January 26, 2021.- Aaron Petcoff and Ben Tarnoff, "Tech Workers at Every Level Can Organize to Build Power." Jacobin Magazine. February 6, 2021.- Ben Tarnoff, "The Making of the Tech Worker Movement." Logic Magazine. May 4, 2020.

This Is Hell!
1357: Tech, labor and the future of the US Postal Service / Brian Justie

This Is Hell!

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 87:49


Writer Brian Justie on his article "The Nonmachinables" for Logic Magazine, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's coming for dinner. https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-nonmachinables/

COVIDCalls
EP #253 - 04.05.2021 - Teletherapy and the Pandemic

COVIDCalls

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 66:34


Today is a discussion with Hannah Zeavin, author of the new book The Distance Cure Hannah Zeavin  is a Lecturer in the Departments of English and History at UC Berkeley, and a faculty affiliate of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.  Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of technology and medicine. Zeavin is the author of  The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy  (MIT Press, August 2021)   and at work on her second book,  Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family  (MIT Press, 2023) .  Other work has appeared or is forthcoming   in   differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Logic Magazine,  the  Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate,  and elsewhere.

Haymarket Books Live
The Twittering Machine w/ Richard Seymour and Wendy Liu (10-26-20)

Haymarket Books Live

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 84:40


Authors Richard Seymour and Wendy Liu discuss how our social-media generated addiction to writing is ruining our lives, and what we can do to escape its vicious cycles. ---------------------------------------------------- What is the Twittering Machine? An addiction-machine organized around the first ever mass, open-air, collective writing experiment. A microcelebrity-farm, where the only incentive to be there is to cultivate, and destroy, a personal idol. A furnace of meaning, wherein the mass of information stands in inverse proportion to truth. A volatile combination of the stock market, 24 hour news and Neighborhood Watch. This is the social industry. It thrives as it occupies every corner of our lives with compulsive, wage-free writing. It programs our social lives by algorithm and code, subordinating us to mercurial hierarchies of status and visibility, and to the grammar of capitalism. With each new tweetstorm, it brings us ever closer to the edge. Faced with such a novel, unprecedented power, we are entitled to ask the minimum utopian question: what else could we be doing, if not this? ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Richard Seymour is a writer and editor based in London. He is the author of The Twittering Machine and is a founding editor of Salvage. Wendy Liu is a tech commentator, software engineer and former startup founder who left the tech industry to pursue a masters degree in inequality from the London School of Economics. She is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley (Repeater Books) and has written for Logic Magazine, Tribune, and New Internationalist. Her articles on tech worker union organizing have been featured in The Atlantic and CNBC.- --------------------------------------------------- Order a copy of Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine": https://www.versobooks.com/books/3229-the-twittering-machine Order a copy of Wendy Liu's "Abolish Silicon Valley": https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781912248704 ---------------------------------------------------------- This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Verso Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. https://www.haymarketbooks.org https://www.versobooks.com Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/k4zu8Wvoepc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Haymarket Books Live
Abolish Silicon Valley! (6-22-20)

Haymarket Books Live

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 92:00


Disruption, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit – Silicon Valley is viewed by many as the cradle of technological development and progress in our world today. But, behind the luster of unlimited growth and unbounded ambition lies Capitalism's standard blend of exploitation and concentration of individual wealth at the expense of public good. ———————————————————— At a time when technology is seeping even deeper into our lives, how can we reclaim it for the many and not the few? Join authors, activists and radicals Rob Larson and Wendy Liu for a discussion on Big Tech's monopolistic power today, and how we can respond to it with a radical vision of digital socialism. Rob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and Capitalism vs. Freedom. He writes for Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs and Dollars & Sense. Wendy Liu is a tech commentator, software engineer and former startup founder who left the tech industry to pursue a masters degree in inequality from the London School of Economics. She has written for Logic Magazine, Tribune, and New Internationalist, and has been featured in articles for The Atlantic and CNBC on tech worker union organizing. ———————————————————— Cosponsored by Haymarket Books and the Left Book Club. The Left Book Club is a subscription book club for everyone interested in left politics. Relaunched along the lines of Victor Gollancz's ground-breaking organisation active in the 1930s, the LBC seeks to popularise ideas from the left across the UK and abroad. Subscribe today to receive the best books on radical politics: https://www.leftbookclub.com/ ———————————————————— To Join the Left Book Club: https://www.leftbookclub.com/member In the US, order a copy of Bit Tyrants here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1447-bit-tyrants To order a copy of Abolish Silicon Valley: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781912248704 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/yrnBZMhKCnY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Tech Won't Save Us
Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech w/ Gavin Mueller

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 55:30


Paris Marx is joined by Gavin Mueller to discuss who the Luddites really were, what they can teach us about how we think about technology today, and why they show the need for a decelerationist politics of the future.Gavin Mueller is the author of “Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job.” He’s also a lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine. Follow Gavin on Twitter as @gavinmuellerphd.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:An excerpt of Gavin’s book was recently published in Logic Magazine, and previously criticized fully automated luxury communism.Gavin recommends E.P Thompson’s “The Making of the English Working Class”Courts ruled that Uber drivers in the UK are workers, and Deliveroo couriers in Amsterdam are employees.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

After Adult
Unpacking the War on Porn with Gustavo Turner

After Adult

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 82:04


(TW/CW: This episode contains references to sexual abuse of adults and children. Please listen with caution and take care of yourself if it feels too heavy.) Our guest is Gustavo Turner, a writer and photographer, as well as news editor for XBIZ, an adult industry trade publication. In this episode, Gustavo helps us unpack the fallout from the mounting “warn on porn” over the last few weeks, starting with the New York Times op-ed which led to Pornhub losing its payment processing capabilities. Who's next on the list of porn sites to be attacked? We also discuss the wider issue of online content moderation, attacks on section 230, and social media censorship. Follow Gustavo on Twitter and IG: https://twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX, https://www.instagram.com/GustavoTurner/Here’s our ridiculously long reference list for this episode! Nick Kristof’s New York Times op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html?referringSource=articleShare Gustavo Turner’s XBIZ article fact-checking the NYT op-ed: https://www.xbiz.com/news/256091/op-ed-new-york-times-fights-pornhub-with-emotional-pornographyPornhub’s announcement of their new policies as of December 8, 2020: https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002934613XBIZ reports on Visa and MasterCard’s statements: https://www.xbiz.com/news/256201/visa-mastercard-freeze-card-use-on-pornhubAdditional readinghttps://www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/2020/12/21/why-were-fighting-the-stop-internet-sexual-exploitation-act/Logic Magazine: https://twitter.com/logic_magazine, https://logicmag.iohttps://www.xbiz.com/news/256141/gop-senators-parrot-claims-of-nyts-pornhub-editorialhttps://medium.com/@justinethalley/the-siren-song-of-exodus-cry-d507a594c05dhttps://plasticdollheads.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/puritan-movement/https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-christian-group-netflix-spring-break-sex/https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war-pornhubSupport the show (https://spectrumboutique.com/?acc=afteradult)

Asian Review of Books
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

Asian Review of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China's countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he's a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

New Books in Chinese Studies
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books in Chinese Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

New Books in Technology
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books in Technology

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in East Asian Studies
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books in East Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Economics
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)

New Books in Economics

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 36:54


Most of our discussions about how “technology will change the world” focus on the global cities that drive the world economy. Even when we talk about China, we focus on its major cities: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.  Xiaowei Wang corrects this metronormativity in their recent book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSG Originals: 2020), which explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it.   In this interview, we talk about the frontiers of technology that are being charted in rural China, and why China’s countryside may be the best place to understand how technology, capitalism and society will intersect in the coming years — often in not altogether positive ways. We also talk about some of the more recent developments in how Chinese technology is treated in the United States, with reference to their recent articles: "WeChat Has Both Connected Families and Torn Them Apart" in Slate and "How the Theatrics of Banning TikTok Enables Repression at Home" in The Nation. Xiaowei Wang is the creative director at Logic Magazine, whose work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and education. Their projects have been featured in The New York Times, the BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. You can follow them on Twitter at @xrw. You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Blockchain Chicken Farm. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. In his day job, he’s a researcher and writer for a think tank in economic and sustainable development. He is also a print and broadcast commentator on local and regional politics. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Deep Dive
Episode 42: Counterculture, Techno-utopianism and the Social Good: A Conversation with Fred Turner

The Deep Dive

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2020 49:39


In this conversation, Philip spends time with Stanford professor Fred Turner. On the eve of the 2020 election Philip and Fred discuss the counterculture movements of the 60s and trace its legacy to our current tech and social reality. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: Stuart Hall Essential Essays (2 Volume Set) (https://www.dukeupress.edu/essential-essays-two-volume-set) Fred's Drop: Stuart Hall Library (https://iniva.org/library/) Logic Magazine (https://logicmag.io/) Special Guest: Fred Turner.

Tech Won't Save Us
What Rural China Teaches Us About the Future of Tech w/ Xiaowei Wang

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 43:40


Paris Marx is joined by Xiaowei Wang to discuss how technology is being used to connect rural China to global supply chains, what that means for life and work in those communities, and how China also holds inspiration for a different way of organizing production and technological development.Xiaowei Wang is a technologist, artist, and writer. They are the creative director at Logic Magazine and author of “Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside.” Follow Xiaowei on Twitter as @xrw.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network and follow it on Twitter as @harbingertweets. You can also find out more about 49th Parahell on its website.Also mentioned in this episode:How China’s Sanlu milk scandal shattered trust in the food systemGarrett Hardin, who came up with the tragedy of the commons, was a racist, eugenicist, nativist, and Islamophobe — and those ideas are baked into the conceptElinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on the governance of commons, rebuking Hardin’s ideasXiaowei wrote about the Chinese concept of “shanzhai” provides a vision of an open-source future of technological developmentSupport the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Tech Won't Save Us
Thinking about Tech in the Present Tense w/ Ben Tarnoff

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 44:39


Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why we should look to the Luddites for inspiration, how history could inform a better future of technology, and what tech organizing might look like under a Joe Biden administration.Ben Tarnoff is a co-founder of Logic Magazine and co-authored “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do–and How They Do It” with Moira Weigel. The book will be released in October and can be preordered now. Follow Ben on Twitter as @bentarnoff.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Mentioned in this episode:“To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution” by Ben Tarnoff“From Manchester to Barcelona” by Ben Tarnoff“The Making of the Tech Worker Movement” by Ben Tarnoff“The Making of the English Working Class” by E.P. Thompson“The Machine Breakers” by Eric Hobsbawm“Present Tense Technology” by David NobleSupport the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Tech Won't Save Us
We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources w/ Thea Riofrancos

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 52:42


Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss why we should care about the supply chains of technology, what that resource extraction means for people in Latin America, and how we should think about a less resource-intensive future.Thea Riofrancos is the author of “Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador” and co-author of “A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.” She is also an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. Her argument against green extractivism was published by Logic Magazine. Follow Thea on Twitter as @triofrancos.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Also mentioned in this episode:“Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism” by Martín Arboleda“Could a Green New Deal makes us happier people?” by Kate Aronoff“Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk” by James WiltSupport the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

FUTURES Podcast
Abolish Silicon Valley w/ Wendy Liu

FUTURES Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 78:20


Start-up founder Wendy Liu shares her thoughts on the perils of start-up life, how Silicon Valley is dealing with issues of inequality, and what can be done to reclaim technology’s potential for the public good. Wendy Liu is a start-up founder who left the tech industry to pursue a master's degree in inequality from the London School of Economics. She was written about technology and politics for Logic Magazine, Dissent, and Tribune, and has been featured in articles on tech worker organising for The Atlantic and CNBC. She lives in San Francisco. Find out more: futurespodcast.net CREDITS Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason FOLLOW FUTURES PODCAST Twitter: @FUTURESPodcast Instagram: @futurespodcast Facebook: @FUTURESPodcast

Tech Won't Save Us
Uber's War on Drivers w/ Veena Dubal

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 38:13


Paris Marx is joined by Veena Dubal to discuss how Uber's misclassification of drivers of independent contractors denies them rights and protections granted to other workers; how that's causing even more problems during the pandemic; the ongoing fight in California to get drivers recognized as employees under Assembly Bill 5; and how ride-hailing services ushered in a second wave of deregulation in the taxi industry.Veena Dubal is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings. Her work focuses on the intersection of law, tech, and precarious worker. She recently wrote about how Uber drivers are faring during the pandemic for The Guardian and the longer history of taxi regulation for Logic Magazine. Follow Veena on Twitter as @veenadubal.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Tech Won't Save Us
Tech's Response to COVID-19 w/ Wendy Liu

Tech Won't Save Us

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 41:26


Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to talk about how the tech industry is responding to COVID-19, how tech workers may find their jobs at risk in the aftermath, and why we need to change the system to build tech for the public good instead of in service to private capital.Wendy Liu is the author of "Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism." She has also written for Tribune Magazine, Logic Magazine, and the New Statesman. Follow Wendy on Twitter as @dellsystem.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

Podcasts - Future Left
Ep. 151: Control + Alt + Delete (Ft. Ben Tarnoff)

Podcasts - Future Left

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2019 47:58


Property. What is to be done with it--specifically, the so-called platforms that Big Tech uses to surveil and exploit working people? We spoke with Ben Tarnoff, founder of Logic Magazine, about the subject which he explored in a recent blog post "Platforms Don't Exist." https://bentarnoff.substack.com/p/platforms-dont-exist We decided to play a fun game which you can play along with at home! We'll name a platform, like Twitter, Task Rabbit, or Arby's, and you tell us if you think it should be nationalized, collectivized, or abolished altogether. Fun for the whole family! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider giving to us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/futureleft If you enjoyed this podcast but can't support us with money, consider helping us get the word out by sharing us on social media or recommending us to a friend.

TrueAnon
UNLOCKED: DARPA Marx

TrueAnon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2019 93:19


Brace and Liz are joined by Ben Tarnoff, founding editor of Logic Magazine (http://logicmag.io), to figure out what the hell is going on with this internet business.

TrueAnon
Episode 18: DARPA Marx (teaser)

TrueAnon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 3:30


To hear the full episode, subscribe for $5/month at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod Brace and Liz are joined by Ben Tarnoff, founding editor of Logic Magazine, to figure out what the hell is going on with this internet business. Read and subscribe to Logic Magazine at logicmag.io

The Arts of Travel
Erasing Xinjiang - A Conversation on China's Campaign against the Uyghur People w. Darren Byler

The Arts of Travel

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2019 81:57


Recently, I had a beautiful and tragic Conversation with Dr. Darren Byler (Twitter: @Dtbyler) on Xinjiang and the Uyghur People. The beautiful part of our conversation is the first part, where Darren and I discuss our own experiences in Xinjiang and Yunnan, and Darren teaches us the history of Xinjiang and the complexities of Uyghur culture and faith. The tragic part of our conversation is the second half. Where Darren and I discuss how Chinese statecraft has shifted against the Ughyur people, from one of tolerance to one of "terror capitalism" and "cultural genocide". This genocide is abetted by panopticon surveillance technology throughout Xinjiang as well as historic bigotries such as Islamophobia and Settler Colonialism. At Asia Art Tours we have great fondness for China. It's where we got our start in Tourism, as well as where we first truly began exploring leftist politics (our founder's dad, like many activists in the 60s had a copy of Mao's little red book!) We offer tours throughout the country and constantly want travelers to have a more nuanced understanding of the country beyond the Great Wall or Pandas . We also desperately want political dialogue and Western lenses of China to move beyond Cold War fear-mongering. However, as much as we find great interest, beauty and intellect throughout China, we cannot ignore that (for the Global Left) it no longer appears to be offering a viable alternative to Western Oligarchic, Racist Statecraft. To paraphrase Yanis Varafakis, democracy (and the state) cannot be mere fig-leafs for oligarchy. . . neither can Communism. . . and what's happening in China to the Ughyur people... is not anything approaching the passionate, empathetic and humane future I want for the world as a Leftist. In fact the China State (and statecraft) would be the utter antithesis of the future I want. We hope you enjoy the chat and let us know what you think. The conversation connects to multiple threads we can see in the world, from The USA's "War on Terror" to Global Islamophobia, to the surveillance technology newly utilized from regions as diverse as Hong Kong, Israel, and of course the United States. • For more on Darren please check out his excellent Article in Logic Magazine.https://logicmag.io/china/ghost-world/ • As well as his vital homepage which compiles art, culture, essays and reporting on Xinjiang. https://livingotherwise.com (all photos and videos used are by Darren Byler, do not share or reuse without consent)

Somerset House Studios
3: Recoding Music: Has the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians? | Feminist Internet

Somerset House Studios

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2019 36:50


Has the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians?  The Internet has changed the way we make, share and listen to music. Now, more than ever, female and non binary artists should have the opportunity to be heard on their own terms. But what are the effects of algorithm led streaming sites on artist autonomy, our listening habits and the value of music? In this episode we speak to those in and around the music industry who are challenging the way we make and consume music in the age of streaming.  Contributors Liz Pelly  Liz Pelly (https://twitter.com/lizpelly) writes about music, culture, streaming and the internet. She is a contributing editor at The Baffler, (https://thebaffler.com/) where she writes a column about how the world of music is being reshaped by the platform economy. Her byline has also recently appeared in the pages of Bitch, Frieze, and Logic Magazine. In 2018, she received a Reeperbahn Festival International Music Journalism Award for The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism. She lives in New York.  Terry Tyldesley Terry Tyldesley is chair of the board of new ethical music streaming platform Resonate. (https://resonate.is) Resonate is a co-operative platform on a mission to rewire the music industry so that everyone has a voice, not just corporations. Terry is also a songwriter and producer, and frontrunner of electro-punk band Feral Five (https://feralfive.bandcamp.com) . She produced and curated Music Tech Festival (https://musictechfest.net) Berlin.  Moonbow of SIREN Collective  SIREN (https://twitter.com/sirenldn?lang=en-gb) is a collective focused on challenging and re-defining current preconceptions within dance music. Their parties, zine, mix series, monthly NTS Radio show (https://www.nts.live/shows/siren) and workshops are musical and political platforms for women & non-binary people, and prioritise accessibility. Expanding upon this work is their recent video series project "The Shape Of Sound" (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/assembly/siren-shape-of-sound) which was created in collaboration with Somerset House Studios. Mick Grierson  Mick Grierson is Research Leader at UAL Creative Computing Institute. (https://www.arts.ac.uk/creative-computing-institute) His research explores new approaches to the creation of sounds, images, video and interactions through signal processing, machine learning and information retrieval techniques. He is working on an AI sound project in collaboration with Massive Attack, to be unveiled as part of the unprecedented Barbican exhibition AI: More Than Human (https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/ai-more-than-human) in May 2019.  Hosts Clara Finnigan Clara is a writer, podcaster and founding member of the Feminist Internet. Clara’s work is focused on facilitating alternative and under represented dialogues in new and accessible ways. She is also the co-founder and editor of a new music journalism platform, Hook - which explores how music is made, how it is consumed, and what it does to us emotionally, socially and physically. Rhiannon Williams Rhiannon is a poet and writer, and a founding member of Feminist Internet. She is a  researcher with Arup’s Foresight Department, and her first poetry collection, Saturnine/Saturnalia (https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/products/saturnine-saturnalia) , was published last year. She writes about gender, technology, sexuality, music, and conflicted space.  Feminist Internet is a group of artists and designers working to advance internet equalities for women and other marginalised groups through critical practice. In this podcast series, the group will explore the theme of Recoding Spaces, both online and offline, with the aim of diversifying internet spaces metaphorically, physically and digitally, intercepting homogenous zones and breaking the filter bubble. The podcast aims to not only expose these spaces, but to regenerate them in new and inclusive ways.  The Feminist Internet Podcast, commissioned and produced by Somerset House Studios with the support of the UAL Creative Computing Institute. Producer: Eleanor Scott Sound Design: Harry Murdoch

TRASHFUTURE
Robot Chores feat. James Vincent

TRASHFUTURE

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 73:01


Well, the Conservatives are at it again. Whether it’s Matt Hancock or Liz Truss or Rory Stewart, they’re out being dumb and unaware. But don’t worry, friends -- your reassembled gang of all original lads, Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) are here to tell you why the Instagram Tories are bad and untrustworthy. This week, we’re joined in studio by James Vincent (@jjvincent), senior reporter for the Verge, on the topic of hellish developments in automation. Imagine if Capital could make robots driven by drone operators in countries without a minimum wage? And imagine those robots were meant to act like butlers? You can read about it in James’s article here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538020/home-robot-butler-telepresence-ugo-mira-robotics Additionally, we reference an Astra Taylor article from Logic Magazine, which you can read here: https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/ If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *PLEASE VOTE* Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards! Help us shake up the damn establishment by ruining everyone’s night: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’ll be performing once again at the Star of Kings in Kings Cross (126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1 0AX) on Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm. Get your tickets here and return to the podcasting basement! https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-30052019/ *ADDITIONAL LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/ *COMEDY KLAXON*: If you’re in Cambridge, come to Milo’s show tonight, May 14, at 11pm and hear all about Russia. It’s at the ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge CB5 8AS. https://www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/comedy/pindos-an-adventure-in-modern-russia/ Also: you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/, and what’s more, it’s mandatory if you want to be taken seriously. Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Design Tomorrow
Computer World

Design Tomorrow

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2019 23:33


There are very few people left on Earth for whom the world isn't shaped by computers or seen through their screens. But does it have to be this way? In this episode, we'll explore how screens — and the images they reveal — are just as much a manifestation of the world from which they come as they are the raw materials of a story about the next one: the future...LinksThe IBM Portable PC 5155Blade Runner - Opening SceneHuman Progress Landscape, the not-so-good student animation I made in 2003, but for which I still retain some fondnessThe machine I used to make it: the Sony VAIO Digital StudioJony Ive's magical voice for Apple marketingyou may have noticed some sound from the Tron Lightbike SceneThe Matrix "What is Real?" scenekeen listeners and sci-fi aficionados will have noticed sounds from the Nostromo boot sequence in Alienyou may have also noticed some sound from The Lawnmower Man's disconnecting sceneWhat Technology Wants, by Kevin KellyThe last clip you heard came from WarGames - The WOPR introduction sceneMusicWith the exception of a brief sample from a live performance of Kraftwerk in 1978, all music used in this episode was independently produced and shared with Design Tomorrow for non-commercial use by Able Parris of kamuter.Stratosfear, by kamuterDiscovery, by kamuterthe robots (live), by KraftwerkFrequency, by kamuterTerraform, by kamuterInterrogation, by kamuterSome of My Favorite Independent MediaRobin Sloan is a writer and self-styled media inventor who constantly inspires me by independently producing short stories and "odd-shaped internet projects." His latest workspace is called Year of the Meteor, where he's writing a regular newsletter and producing some interesting zine-like media. Robin and his partner Kathryn Tomajan also independently produce California extra virgin olive oil under the label: Fat GoldDesert Oracle is a pocket-sized field guide (and radio show) to the fascinating American deserts: strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros! Independently produced by Ken Layne.Mysterious Universe is my favorite podcast about the weird, the strange, the paranormal, and the metaphysical independently produced for over a decade in Sydney, Australia. You can support them by listening and becoming a member of their Plus Club.Logic Magazine is a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year and maintains an intentionally small digital footprint. Hurry Slowly is a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient through the simple act of slowing down. Aquarium Drunkard is an eclectic audio journal focused on daily reviews, interviews, features, podcasts and sessions.CreditsDesign Tomorrow is produced by Chris Butler at the Tomorrow office in Durham, NC. You can follow the show on Twitter @dsgntmrrw. You can visit the show's website at designtomorrow.co, and you can email me at chris @ designtomorrow.co.Thanks for listening, and remember, what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Past Present
Episode 160: The Weekly Standard, Sheryl Sandberg, and "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Past Present

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2018 43:37


In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the closing of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, changing public perceptions of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and the controversy over the 1944 Christmas classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:  After twenty-three years, the conservative Weekly Standard is shuttering. Natalia recommended Ed Kilgore’s Intelligencer article about the Weekly Standard’s history of partisanship. All three hosts referenced Niki’s book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Niki referred to Jeane Kirkpatrick’s 1979 Commentary essay “Dictatorship and Double Standards.” Silicon Valley executive and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg has gone from superwoman to supervillain, a new Buzzfeed article The classic winter song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” is raising controversy this season, and it’s not the first time. Neil wrote about the controversial history of Christmas songs for The Atlantic. Niki discussed another conflict over the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”    In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History: Natalia recommended Gustavo Turner’s LOGIC Magazine article, “My Stepdad’s Huge Data Set.” Neil discussed Michael S. Rosenwald’s Washington Post article, “The Police Officer Who Arrested a President.” Niki shared Charles Dunst and Krishnadev Kalamur’s Atlantic article, “Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees.

Podcasts - Future Left
Ep. 85: Net Wars: The Last aJitpai (W/ Evan Malmgren)

Podcasts - Future Left

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2017 41:21


Well, we tried the whole net neutrality thing, but it has been privatized by the Capitalist Ogres of the Trump administration. Is it time for full communism on the internet? You know our answer, but check out this interview we did with Evan Malmgren who recently argued in Dissent Magazine that in the wake of Net Neutrality's end, it's time to advocate for public ownership and control of the internet.Evan Malmgren is a Brooklyn-based writer and researcher. You can follow him on Twitter at @Duderonomy and on Tumblr at evanmalmgren.tumbler.com. He's also a contributor to and a big fan of Logic Magazine, which he (and we!) encourages you to check out (https://logicmag.io/03-justice/). You can check out his work at:Dissent Magazine, "Nationalize The Networks." https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/net-neutrality-repeal-case-for-public-broadbandThe Nation. "The New Sewer Socialists Are Building An Equitable Internet." https://www.thenation.com/article/the-new-sewer-socialists-are-building-an-equitable-internet/