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No episódio 285 do Bom dia, Obvious, Marcela Ceribelli conversa com Adriana Ventura sobre o trabalho envolvido no amor, com um olhar histórico e interseccional, questionando a monogamia, os papeis patriarcais e a ideia de que nosso valor como mulher está em ser assumida.Referências:“As relações monogâmicas só existem na cabeça da mulher apaixonada”, Adriana Ventura - https://a.co/d/aOa3RaK“The end of love”, Eva Illouz - https://a.co/d/3Id9v3p“Tudo sobre o amor”, bell hooks - https://a.co/d/dZRuNpI“A prateleira do amor”, Valeska Zanello - https://a.co/d/h9LUeBC“Labor of love”, Moira Weigel - https://a.co/d/aaFUGvC Nos acompanhe também: Instagram da Obvious TikTok da Obvious Chapadinhas de Endorfina Marcela Ceribelli no Instagram Adriana Ventura no Instagram
Samuel Catlin (University at Buffalo) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about "The Campus" -- about the peculiar mental image Americans seem to have, how little it comports with reality, and the uncanny power of that it nevertheless exercises. You can read Samuel's essay "The Campus Does Not Exist" over at Parapraxis magazine: https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-campus-does-not-existYou can read Moira Weigel's article "Hating Theory" (which we refer to in the episode) here: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21427And you can pre-order Adrian's book "The Cancel Culture Panic" (which he's heavily cribbing from in this ep) here: https://www.amazon.com/Cancel-Culture-Panic-American-Obsession/dp/1503640841/
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the moment it was released in 1995, The Rules was controversial.. Some people loved it—and swore that the dating manual's throwback advice helped them land a husband. Others thought it was retrograde hogwash that flew in the face of decades of feminist progress. The resulting brouhaha turned the book into a cultural phenomenon. In this episode, Slate's Heather Schwedel explores where The Rules came from, how it became so popular, and why its list of 35 commandments continue to be so sticky—whether we like it or not. Decoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin and Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Willa Paskin. Derek John is executive producer. Joel Meyer is senior editor/producer. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. We'd like to to thank Benjamin Frisch, Rachel O'Neill, Penny Love, Heather Fain, Elif Batuman, Laura Banks, Marlene Velasquez-Sedito, Leigh Anderson, Caroline Smith. We also want to mention two sources that were really helpful: Labour of Love by Moira Weigel, a paper called Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts by Patricia McDaniel If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 70 of the Podcast for Social Research is a live recording of the concluding panel of BISR's July symposium Frankfurt School and the Now: Critical Theory in the 21st Century. To what extent, 100 years later, can critical theory help us make sense of the particular conditions, crises, and prospective futures of the contemporary twenty first-century moment? Panelists Isi Litke, Barnaby Raine, Samantha Hill, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Moira Weigel, and Jodi Dean consider big data and social media, György Lukács, Black Marxism, climate and class struggle, hyper-individualism, optimism versus pessimism, and the objectification of everything. Is interactive media a democratic alternative to a top-down culture industry, or does it actually exacerbate authoritarian dynamics? How can we think about politics and political subjects under conditions of climate change? In what ways does the twenty-first century echo the twentieth? How do we think with critical theory without fetishizing it? What are the political uses of failure? Is there an imperative to hope?
Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome writer, critic, and scholar Moira Weigel, co-founder of Logic magazine and co-editor with Ben Tarnoff of Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do And How They Do It. Moira introduces listeners to the history and key insights of the Frankfurt School in advance of a (free!) symposium this weekend in New York examining its legacy a hundred years later. They discuss Theodor Adorno's work on “the authoritarian personality” and talk about personality types and social categories as they are constructed everywhere from astrology columns to the speeches of demagogues to Facebook algorithms. The four then turn to Moira's recent work on Silicon Valley, especially her recent collection of interviews with tech workers ranging from engineers to writers to cooks to masseuses to data scientists to the larger-than-life “Founders.” They talk about the surprising sincerity of techno-optimism; what failing upwards does to people; what Adorno would have thought of being called a “thought leader”; whether the Internet is a giant hate machine; and the labor politics and emerging forms of Silicon Valley, a realm that's bigger than just a geographical area, and where we all live, one way or another, like it or not. To register for the 100 Years of the Frankfurt School event in NYC (and also streaming live) on July 14th and 15th: https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events/the-frankfurt-school-and-the-now-a-symposium/Moira's co-edited book Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do ItHer book Labor of LoveThe Adorno book about astrology is The Stars Down to EarthAnna Weiner's book Uncanny ValleyLogic magazine (now being relaunched as Logics) is here: https://logicmag.io/The Collective Action in Tech site that Moira refers to is https://collectiveaction.tech/Have you noticed that Freud is back? Got questions about psychoanalysis? Or maybe you've traversed the fantasy and lived to tell the tale? Leave us a voicemail! 484 775-0107 A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. New episodes on Saturdays. Follow us on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/OrdinaryUnhappiness Twitter: @UnhappinessPod Instagram: @OrdinaryUnhappiness Patreon: patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Theme song: Formal Chicken - Gnossienne No. 1 https://open.spotify.com/album/2MIIYnbyLqriV3vrpUTxxO Provided by Fruits Music
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
Moira Weigel is a scholar and founding editor of Logic magazine. Originally trained in modern languages, including German and Mandarin Chinese, she now studies digital media in a global context. You might have heard of her first book, Labor of Love: the Invention of Dating, from 2016, which is about how modern dating co-evolved with consumer capitalism and other forms of gendered work. Her second book, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff, is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It. It is based in interviews that Weigel and Tarnoff conducted with workers at every level of the Bay Area tech industry, from startup founders to cafeteria workers. Her current research focuses on transnational e-commerce entrepreneurs, and that's really our main focus here, since Moira recently published an incredible overview of Amazon's reach and global strength: a lengthy report that she titled “Amazon's Trickle-Down Monopoly.” (https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/) What's interesting is that she acknowledges the fact that we might not be particularly keen to sit and theorize the impact of the restructuring of the retail business in the 21st century, but it's actually really important. What, we might ask, does “Amazon's lack of accountability to the sellers that use it” indicate, in terms of the nature of platform capitalism? Weigel points out that “businesses [like Amazon] are really governed algorithmically in a way that undermines their [sellers'] entrepreneurial autonomy.” And yet, the way that Amazon often justifies its existence is by saying that it is a staunch “ally of small business.” Weigel unpacks this paradox by looking at what her interviewees said about negotiating the Amazon marketplace. The lack of accountability that Amazon enjoys, despite employing hundreds of thousands of people, expresses itself through, in part, these seemingly arbitrary decisions that the company makes—so, things like banning accounts, restricting certain sellers or constraining the flow of certain products. Those decisions are often experienced by sellers as “mistakes,” according to Weigel's research. But in her analysis they could be part of what she describes as a sort of “regulatory risk shift,” a means of both policing an increasingly complicated marketplace and navigating a complex regulatory environment. Making things circuitous benefits Amazon by keeping things opaque. And understanding the make-up of the company's power is similarly muddy. It was difficult for Moira to even do this research because of how hard it was to actually locate people to interview. That difficulty itself, she says, revealed something about the way that Amazon's monopoly is maintained. As she puts it, “recruiting failures [were] an important finding.” Nonetheless, the report she's put together came about as the result of building trust with sellers and realizing that people, if given the chance, wanted to talk about their experiences in the world of Amazon. And they had specific words for describing that world: they talked about the “old times,” the “wild west,” and “the jungle.” These terms were ways for people working within the system to understand that system.
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
Depuis le vote de la loi de bioéthique en 2021, il est désormais possible pour toutes les femmes de congeler leurs ovocytes. La légalisation de cette technique est une avancée pour les droits reproductifs. Mais est-ce vraiment la recette miracle qu'on présente ? Le risque est que la congélation devienne une nouvelle injonction qui pèse sur les femmes uniquement, et qui empêche de se demander pour quelles raisons économiques et politiques les femmes sont amenées à faire des enfants tard.La congélation des ovocytes est-elle une réelle avancée féministe ? Pourquoi les hommes ne sont pas incités à congeler également leur sperme ? La congélation est elle une réponse individuelle à des questions systémiques ?Judith Duportail – aux côtés de Myriam Levain, autrice et de Nelly Achour, biologiste de la reproduction – explore les conséquences inattendues de la congélation des ovocytes qui favorisent au final la formation de familles traditionnelles.
Amazon is one of the world's largest and most powerful companies. Yet one of the engines of its might is largely invisible to customers- its vast network of millions of third party sellers. In today's episode we talk with Moira Weigel, an Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Northeastern University and the author of a recent report for Data & Society, Amazon's Trickle Down Monopoly: Third Party Sellers and the Transformation of Small Businesses. For the report, Weigel spent a good amount of time trying to understand experience of the people operating the small businesses that power Amazon's global expansion.
In honor of Valentine's Day, Jen does a deep dive into the history of modern courting and dating. Who would have thought department stores could have had so much to do with it?Questions/Comments/Concerns/Recommendations? Email us at ragingromantics@nopl.org! Books we recommend:Labor of Love by Moira WeigelSorry, Bro by Taleen VoskuniEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather FawcettInventing The It Girl by Dr. Hilary HallettBet Me by Jennifer CrusieAgnes and the Hitman by CrusieCrazy for You by CrusieFaking It by CrusieAnyone but You by CrusieWhen a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa DareIndie bookstores we recommend in Syracuse!Parthenon BooksGolden Bee BookshopOther episodes:#48 Let's Get PersonalSources"Labor of Love by Moira Weigel review – how dating has changed" (Paskin, 2016)"The history of dating reveals how consumerism has hijacked courtship" (Barclay, 2019)"How the "First Date" Has Changed in Every Decade Through History" (Chatel, 2014)"Looking for love online? We chart the evolution of digital dating" (Khan, 2021)"Department Store" (Encyclopaedia Britannica)"The American Gift & Curse — Non Generational Millionaires are making the United States Poorer than the rest of the world" (Lopez, 2019)
Amazon might seem anathema to small business, but the fact is, third-party sellers account for the majority of the e-commerce giant’s sales. These sellers range from independent artisans and designers to opportunistic resellers of products from big-box stores. A new report from the nonprofit Data & Society examines how Amazon is helping, hurting and generally transforming the small business retail model. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Moira Weigel, the author of the report and a professor at Northeastern University. She described the effect Amazon has on small businesses as a “trickle-down monopoly.” Need some Econ 101? Sign up for our Marketplace Crash Course and get weekly lessons to complete at your own pace!
Amazon might seem anathema to small business, but the fact is, third-party sellers account for the majority of the e-commerce giant’s sales. These sellers range from independent artisans and designers to opportunistic resellers of products from big-box stores. A new report from the nonprofit Data & Society examines how Amazon is helping, hurting and generally transforming the small business retail model. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Moira Weigel, the author of the report and a professor at Northeastern University. She described the effect Amazon has on small businesses as a “trickle-down monopoly.” Need some Econ 101? Sign up for our Marketplace Crash Course and get weekly lessons to complete at your own pace!
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future. Ben Tarnoff is a tech worker, writer, and co-founder of Logic Magazine. His most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—and How They Do It, co-authored with Moira Weigel. He has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, and Jacobin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After a short statement touching base about the format of the podcast, Jonathan returns to Orren Boyle's ideas about the social responsibilities of companies. The Delano Grape Strike & Boycott is a famous example of the "people not standing for it" when a company fails in its social responsibilities. The bulk of this episode is devoted to an economic discussion of the concept of private property. To distinguish between Orren Boyle's definition of private property and most socialists' definitions of private property, Jonathan emphasizes the difference between private property and the economic concept of personal property. Socialists do have an area of agreement with Boyle's conceptualization of private property regarding the topic of intellectual property regarding live-saving technologies such as pharmaceutical generics and the Green Revolution touched off by Norman Borlaug. Jonathan ends the episode by explaining the dangers of the extremes when it comes to economic competition: monopoly and "unbridled competition." For a great op-ed about third-party sellers flooding Amazon, see this piece by Moira Weigel. My five themes to explore in this podcast's close read of Atlas Shrugged are:What is human nature?Straw-man arguments and their impact on the world Ayn Rand creates.Dagny Taggart as a true hero.How empathy can be de-legitimized.What is Capitalism and what is wrong with it? Questions or comments? Email me at: socialistreads@gmail.comLearn more about Jonathan Seyfried at their website, https://jonathanseyfried.artIf you'd like to support my creative work, please visit my Patreon page.The intro/outro music was composed by John Sib.The podcast theme image was created by Karina Bialys.Support the Show.
Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss Peter Thiel's history, how the network he cultivated has influenced Silicon Valley, and his recent move into funding Republican candidates.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. She also co-edited Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It. 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, 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:Moira wrote about Peter Thiel and the importance of his network in The New Republic.Paris wrote about why Peter Thiel isn't an outlier in Silicon Valley.Reason Magazine asked “wasn't Peter Thiel supposed to be a libertarian?”In February 2020, Peter Thiel stepped down from Facebook's board.Books mentioned: The Contrarian by Max Chafkin, From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner, Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, The PayPal Wars by Eric Jackson, Predict and Surveil by Sarah Brayne.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
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.
What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerged in the early 1990s? How do we distinguish between liberal opponents of PC like Jonathan Chain and right-wing ones like Donald Trump? And then, finally, is there still a there there? Some problems with The Discourse that we should reflect upon? Readings: Some “Politically Incorrect” Pathways Through PC by Stuart Hall ram-wan.net/restrepo/hall/some%20politically%20incorrect%20pathways.pdf Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy by Moira Weigel theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump The Use of Free Speech in Society by Asad Haider versobooks.com/blogs/4793-the-use-of-free-speech-in-society Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerged in the early 1990s? How do we distinguish between liberal opponents of PC like Jonathan Chain and right-wing ones like Donald Trump? And then, finally, is there still a there there? Some problems with The Discourse that we should reflect upon? Readings: Some “Politically Incorrect” Pathways Through PC by Stuart Hall ram-wan.net/restrepo/hall/some%20politically%20incorrect%20pathways.pdf Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy by Moira Weigel theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump The Use of Free Speech in Society by Asad Haider versobooks.com/blogs/4793-the-use-of-free-speech-in-society Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Moira Weigel, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center/ Harvard Law School and Harvard Data and Society researcher, joined us for a far-reaching discussion of technology's impact on behavior, and in our case, how Amazon's expanding influence is taking over the lives of so many business owners, globally. She's looking to talk to sellers about their Amazon experiences, both with their competitors and with Amazon itself. That may mean you! We discussed her writing project in-depth and the various kinds of seller situations she's already pored over in the course of her work. She's covering a lot of ground, as we discovered, in this conversation. Looking forward to having her back!
This is part 2 of a 10 part series on Christian dating. This is a high energy conversation with fellow Podcaster Willie G-Berry about doing the dating thing! This episode is based on Moira Weigel book "Labor of love: The invention of dating" these are 10 fascinating facts about the origin of dating. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anthony-wilson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthony-wilson/support
Paris Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley’s desire for a “frictionless” world is affecting culture, and why it’s important to analyze Substack’s claims about the future of journalism.Anna Wiener is the author of “Uncanny Valley” (available in paperback on Bookshop) and a contributing writer at the New Yorker. Follow Anna on Twitter as @annawiener.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:Read Anna’s articles on Substack, Section 230, and Salesforce Park in San Francisco.Ava Kofman, Francis Tseng, and Moira Weigel explain how Amazon self-publishing has become a haven for white supremacists.Venture-capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote about what they see as the “passion economy.”Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)
In seinem neuen Buch „Was das Valley Denken nennt“ untersucht Adrian Daub – Professor an der Stanford Universität – die Selbsterzählungen, Mythen und Verkaufsgeschichten der Meinungsführer*innen des Silicon Valley. Shownotes „Was das Valley Denken nennt – Über die Ideologie der Techbranche“ (2020) von Adrian Daub: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/was_das_valley_denken_nennt-adrian_daub_12750.html "What Tech Calls Thinking" (2020) von Adrian Daub: https://logicmag.io/what-tech-calls-thinking/ Website von Adrian Daub: https://www.adriandaub.com/ Adrian Daub auf der Seite der Stanford University: https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/adrian-daub Adrian Daub auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/adriandaub Podcast "The Feminist Present" von Adrian Daub und Laura Goode: https://gender.stanford.edu/podcast ; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-feminist-present/id1517251918 "The Feminist Present" auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/feministpresent Weitere Shownotes Wiki zu Joseph Schumpeter: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter Wiki zu "Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie" (Orig. 1942) von Joseph Schumpeter: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapitalismus,_Sozialismus_und_Demokratie Artikel in The Guardian zu Proposition 22: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/15/proposition-22-california-ballot-measure-explained Proposition 22 (App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative Statute 2020), Original: https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2020/general/pdf/topl-prop22.pdf "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism" (2008) von Fred Turner: https://fredturner.stanford.edu/books/from-counterculture-to-cyberculture/ Wiki zu WeWork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeWork Wiki zu Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230 §230 aus dem US-Telekommunikationsgesetz, Original: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title47/pdf/USCODE-2011-title47-chap5-subchapII-partI-sec230.pdf Wiki zu "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" aka Google memo: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%E2%80%99s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber "Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It" (2020) von Ben Taroff and Moira Weigel: https://logicmag.io/voices-from-the-valley/ "Tech Against Trump" (2017): https://logicmag.io/tech-against-trump/ Weitere Future Histories Episoden: Episode 42 mit Moira Weigel zu Palantir, Tech-Nationalism and Aggression in the Life-World (Englisch): https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e42-moira-weigel Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today und diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast oder auf Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #AdrianDaub, #WasDasValleyDenkenNennt, #SiliconValley, #Disruption, #disruptiv, #VoicesFromTheValley, #Interview, #Society, #Demokratie, #DigitalerKapitalismus, #Schumpeter, #Sozialismus, #Kapitalismus, #Section230, #CalifornianIdeology, #IdeologicalEchoChamber, #WhatTechCallsThinking, #TechUtopismus, #ElonMusk #Moira Weigel, #Proposition22, #Kalifornien, #Uber, #TechKonzerne, #JamesDamore, #GoogleMemo
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document.ShownotesMoira Weigel's Website:http://www.moiraweigel.com/Moira on Twitter:https://twitter.com/moiragweigelMoira Weigel at Harvard:https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0Weigel, Moira und Ben Tranoff (Hg.). 2020. Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It. San Francisco: Logic:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675Weigel, Moira. 2020. "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School”. Artikel. b2o: an online journal (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2021):https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)Weigel, Moira. 2016. Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating. London: Macmillan Publishers:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133German translation: Weigel, Moira. Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Übersetzt von Anna-Nina Kroll. München: Penguin Verlag:https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhdLogic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:https://logicmag.io/Homepage Data Societyhttps://datasociety.net/Literature mentioned in the Interview:Karp, Alexander. 2002. Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur. (Dissertation, Philosophie):https://d-nb.info/966060652/34Bernstein, Joseph. 2017. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream". Blogeintrag. In BuzzFeed News (full article online):https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalismAdorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Übersetzt von tanowski, Knut und Frederic Will. Evanston: Northwestern University Press:https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticityAdorno, Theodor W. 1964. Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie. Berlin: Sihrkamp.https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.htmlBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture vol. 6(1): 44-72 (PDF link and full article online):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideologyhttp://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs:https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/Hwang, Tim. 2020. Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. London: Macmillan:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Additional Shownotes:Homepage Tech Workers Coalition:https://techworkerscoalition.org/Wiki on Techno-nationalism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalismWiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thielhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_TechnologiesWiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Landhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_UnitWiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_YarvinFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook(German) S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski(German) S01E29 | mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeldIf 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/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook
In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document.ShownotesMoira Weigel's Website:http://www.moiraweigel.com/Moira on Twitter:https://twitter.com/moiragweigelMoira Weigel at Harvard:https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0Weigel, Moira und Ben Tranoff (Hg.). 2020. Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It. San Francisco: Logic:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675Weigel, Moira. 2020. "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School”. Artikel. b2o: an online journal (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2021):https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)Weigel, Moira. 2016. Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating. London: Macmillan Publishers:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133German translation: Weigel, Moira. Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Übersetzt von Anna-Nina Kroll. München: Penguin Verlag:https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhdLogic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:https://logicmag.io/Homepage Data Societyhttps://datasociety.net/Literature mentioned in the Interview:Karp, Alexander. 2002. Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur. (Dissertation, Philosophie):https://d-nb.info/966060652/34Bernstein, Joseph. 2017. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream". Blogeintrag. In BuzzFeed News (full article online):https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalismAdorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Übersetzt von tanowski, Knut und Frederic Will. Evanston: Northwestern University Press:https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticityAdorno, Theodor W. 1964. Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie. Berlin: Sihrkamp.https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.htmlBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture vol. 6(1): 44-72 (PDF link and full article online):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideologyhttp://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs:https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/Hwang, Tim. 2020. Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. London: Macmillan:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Additional Shownotes:Homepage Tech Workers Coalition:https://techworkerscoalition.org/Wiki on Techno-nationalism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalismWiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thielhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_TechnologiesWiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Landhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_UnitWiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_YarvinFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook(German) S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski(German) S01E29 | mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeldIf 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/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook
In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document. Shownotes Moira Weigel's Website: http://www.moiraweigel.com/ Moira on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel Moira Weigel at Harvard: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0 "Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It." (2020) by Ben Taroff and Moira Weigel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675 "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School" (2020) by Moira Weigel: https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article) "Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating." (2018) by Moira Weigel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133 German translation: „Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte“: https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhd Logic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel: https://logicmag.io/ Homepage Data Society https://datasociety.net/ Literature mentioned in the Interview: "Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur" (2002) by Alexander C. Karp: https://d-nb.info/966060652/34 (PDF) "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream" (2017) by Joseph Bernstein: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism (full article online) "The Jargon of Authenticity" (1973, orig.: 1964) by Theodor W. Adorno: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticity German: "Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie" (1964): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.html "The Californian Ideology" (1996) by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideology (PDF link) http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/ (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ "Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (2020) by Tim Hwang: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Additional Shownotes: Homepage Tech Workers Coalition: https://techworkerscoalition.org/ Wiki on Techno-nationalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalism Wiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies Wiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_Unit Wiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 16 with Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook (German) Episode 22 mit Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski (German) Episode 29 mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld 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/ www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel discuss their new book "Voices from the Valley." Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel" Garth Brooks and Huey Lewis - "Workin' for a Livin'" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/98500
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors of Voices from the Valley, on workers in the tech industry. Also, Paul Street, author of Hollow Resistance, on the dismal post-presidency of Barack Obama.
Behind the News, 10/22/20 - guests: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel on tech workers; Paul Street on Obama - Doug Henwood
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)
Write anything, post anything as a woman on the internet, and they will gather: the Debate Me Bros. They are owed more arguments, further justification. They are experts, and they aren't sure you are. In the first of our Clayman Conversations Online, journalist Nhi Le and scholar Moira Weigel will discuss online debate culture from a feminist perspective. Is the demand for free and open debate online really as neutral as it often presents itself? How are dominant power structures replicated or challenged in online debate culture? As with all Clayman Conversations, the panelists will consider dimensions of race, class, gender and sexuality in untangling this timely issue.
The mess of hystrionics and misinformation that passes for right-wing media these days didn’t spring from nowhere. How did this increasingly influential and well-funded sphere become what it is? On Episode 11 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with Moira Weigel, a postdoctoral scholar at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a founding editor of Logic magazine, about the early careers of pivotal figures such as Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart, and the regulatory and technological changes that paved the way for their success. Later in the show, veteran politics reporter Walter Shapiro offers an update on the state of the Trump campaign, whose strategists have settled on two important goals: 1) Make a lot of money and 2) don’t get fired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As technology becomes more embedded in our lives, the fear of a big data takeover is becoming even more tangible. Recent headlines, including those reporting on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in racially biased algorithms, “deepfakes” that are indistinguishable from reality and fatal accidents involving self-driving cars, have only contributed to these fears. Many of these stories, however, do not include ways non-tech people can gain agency over their data. As a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013, Rumman Chowdhury is no stranger to the problems with tech. However, her optimism about the good it can do—in identifying cancer cells, for example, or helping you clean your apartment—has led her to focus her career on bringing humanity to data and including everyone in the process. Instead of sitting on the sidelines as bystanders to the techpocalypse, Chowdhury encourages both companies and consumers to take an active role in recognizing the real-world problems that perpetuate bad algorithms, instilling a moral compass in our tech. Chowdhury has been recognized as one of Silicon Valley's 40 under 40, one of the BBC's 100 Women and is a fellow at the Royal Society of the Arts. She is currently the global lead for responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, where she works with c-suite clients to create cutting-edge technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI. Come calm your fears about our data-driven future with Rumman Chowdhury as she joins INFORUM to break down how we can all work to shape AI for the better. This conversation will be moderated by Moira Weigel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a founding editor of Logic magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the legacy of late billionaire David Koch, the menace of bedbugs, and why so many people are choosing to remain friends after a breakup. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Billionaire libertarian and David Koch has died. Natalia referred to Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article that first brought major attention to the political influence of the Koch brothers. Bedbugs are in the news these days with outbreaks at the Trump Doral Resort and the New York Times. When political scientist David Karpf joked that Bret Stephens is a “bedbug,” the New York Times columnist emailed his provost. Niki recommended Karpf’s most recent book, Analytical Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Natalia referred to science journalist Brooke Borel’s book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. Why do people want to stay friends after a breakup, The Atlantic recently asked in an article by Ashley Fetters. Natalia recommended historian Nancy Cott’s book, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation, Christine Whelan’s book Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, and Moira Weigel’s Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History: Natalia recommended Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated. Neil discussed International Dog Day, and specifically, George H.W. Bush’s dog Ranger. Niki shared Jamelle Bouie’s New York Times opinion piece, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Understands Democracy Better than Republicans Do.”
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A recent wave of worker actions at major tech firms have challenged company contracts with the Pentagon, ICE, and other government agencies; organized for safe and equitable workplaces, free from sexual harassment and discrimination; and demanded better wages, benefits, and working conditions for both white and blue collar contractors. Scholar and a founding editor of Logic magazine Moira Weigel places these actions in context, drawing on several years of research and writing on the movement. She proposes that these actions point to the need for new frameworks for interpreting the culture or world view of the tech industry—frameworks beyond "The Californian Ideology" that has dominated since the 1990s. She shares several recently proposed alternatives for thinking about "tech work" (e.g. platform capitalism, surveillance capitalism, data colonialism) that members of tech worker organizations themselves have studied and drawn on. This talk is moderated by recent Berkman Klein Fellow, Yarden Katz. More info on this event here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-02-26/goodbye-california
Today, we’re addressing one of the most obnoxious corners of the identity politics debate. And that is the corner occupied by Right Liberals who believe that any desire to change the world is a divisive symptom of maladjusted affluenza emanating from pampered college students. Moira Weigel discusses her Guardian review of The Coddling of the American Mind, which makes its case by way of pragmatic folk aphorisms like: “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child”. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge catalogue of left-wing books at www.versobooks.com Please support this podcast with you money at patreon.com/TheDig
Playing for Team Human today, recorded live on the floor at the Personal Democracy Forum 2018, are Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff. Moira and Ben will be showing us how the tech industry’s promise to build less harmful products and programs is just capitalism’s way of proving that love means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”Moira and Ben co-wrote the brilliant feature article in the Guardian, “Why Silicon Valley Can’t Fix Itself”Just last week, Ben’s exposé and interview with an anonymous worker/organizer at Google revealed the internal fight led by workers against Google’s contracting with the Pentagon on Project Maven, a weaponized use of Google’s AI and cloud computing technology. The interview, published June 6th, can be found at Jacobin magazine: Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon Ben’s articles in the Guardian and Jacobin have been disrupting tech industry gospel for the past decade. He is also the author of The Bohemians.Moira Weigel is a postdoc at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her recent book Labor of Love; The Invention of Dating looks at the commodification of courtship under consumer capitalism. Moira and Ben are editors of Logic, a print and digital magazine which features thought provoking journalism on technology. Like Team Human, Logic strives to host a “better conversation” about technology… learn more and subscribe here: https://logicmag.io/Douglas opens the show with a monologue unpacking the bizarre news of the past week; G7, trade wars, and North Korea.On today’s show you heard intro and outro music thanks to Fugazi and Dischord records, R.U. Sirius’s President Mussolini Makes the Planes Run On Time, and a Team Human original by Stephen Bartolomei. You can sustain this show via Patreon. And please leave us a review on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Whether you’re single, coupled-up, or not even interested in a cuddle buddy at the moment, this episode’s question about dating is really about so much more. It’s time to explore the mind-opening world of personality temperaments with a letter from a listener who signs her name, “Successfully Single” ... and a chorus of bored children from your Teddy Ruxpin dreams. Our guest for this episode is the brilliant Moira Weigel, author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. She’s a writer, translator, and scholar currently at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 2017, she received her PhD from Yale University. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Republic. Find her online at http://www.moiraweigel.com .·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·. MOMMA B’S GOODIE BAG OF HELPFUL LINKS Prettily designed temperament test: https://www.truity.com/test/typefinder®-temperament-test OG Temperament sorter: https://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx Read Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating: http://a.co/eJtL1Fg Whoooorray for temperaments! More about the temperaments: http://fourtemperaments.com/4-primary-temperaments/ .·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·. Support Advice from Mom by supporting our sponsor: For 25% off your first order, visit RXBAR.com/pickleball and enter the promo code: pickleball at checkout. Advice from Mom is a production of Wise Ones Advice Services. It was produced by Juliet Hinely & Rebecca Garza-Bortman. Editing by Juliet Hinely. Mixed and mastered by Jake Young. Publicity by Jane Riccobono. Audio assistance by Bryan Garza. The song throughout this episode is Rebel in Motion by Scissors for Lefty. Our theme music is by Love Jerks: www.lovejerks.com This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to offer diagnosis or treatment of any medical or psychological condition. All treatment decisions should be made in partnership with your health professional.
1 John 4.7-11. What would it look like to have dating relationships that are shaped by the kind of love that Jesus shows his people? Key Resources: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg; Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel; Sermons on dating by Britton Wood, Les Newsom, Matt Howell.
Writer and academic Moira Weigel talks us through the history of dating, its economic and gendered aspects, and why so many commentators permanently seem to think the kids are doing it wrong.
Let's talk about sex! And also not having sex! This episode looks at how there's no such thing as "traditional" dating. Dating norms have evolved over our history and continue to grow and change as we have more freedom to define happiness for ourselves. We talk with Moira Weigel, the author of the book Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating, and the founder of NYC's meetup group for asexual and agender folks. Plus, sex positive selfie enthusiast Ev'yan Whitney interviews a very special person about dating: her mom.
Dating in the digital age equates to a slew of websites and apps that all purport to offer paths to love. But, while we may have more ways to find that special someone than ever before, actually forging those bonds isn’t quite as easy as swiping right.
With an estimated 50 million users on Tinder, how are digital platforms like this changing the way we date? And the way we think about love? Leah Green reaches out to Moira Weigel and Dr Jenny Bristow in search of answers
Moira Weigel explains how the changing nature of work has reshaped the way we meet, date, and fall in love. She's the author of "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating" and is completing a Ph.D. at Yale University.
Unsere Großeltern haben auch Dates gehabt. Im 21. Jahrhundert aber gestalten wir den Prozess des Kennenlernens immer effektiver. Fragt sich nur, ob wir damit auch die Romantik killen? Warum Dating immer auch Emanzipation ist, weshalb das Date so eine wichtige Rolle im Kapitalismus einnimmt, was das alles mit unserer Arbeitswelt und der Sprache des Neoliberalismus zu tun hat und wieso wir Tinder & Co. eine „Revolution von unten“ zu verdanken haben, das erklärt die Historikerin Moira Weigel im Interview.Der Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/gesellschaft/moira-weigel-dating-brand-eins
This week, Moira Weigel discusses new biographies of Helen Gurley Brown; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Juliet Nicolson talks about “A House Full of Daughters”; and Gregory Cowles and Parul Sehgal on what people are reading. Pamela Paul is the host.
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Ever wondered what the first real date looked like? Moira Weigel, author of the new book Labor of Love, sheds light on the history of dating, and why we should stop freaking out about the hookup culture.
Ever wondered what the first real date looked like? Moira Weigel, author of the new book Labor of Love, sheds light on the history of dating, and why we should stop freaking out about the hookup culture.
This week, we interview Moira Weigel, the author of "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating," about how crazily recent - and purely American - the whole idea of dating is, why we still talk about it basically like it's the 1950s, and when it got to be so damn much work. (Blame the working-class woman who invented dating in 1896.) Oh, also about the word your grandmother used instead of "motorboating." With Maureen O'Connor and David Wallace-Wells.
If dating feels like hard work, that's because it is. Lisa Bonos chats Moira Weigel talk about love is related to the economy, and other tidbits from her book "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating."