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paranoia is a project of worlding that indexes a social totality.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty” powered by machines capable of “reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price.”**
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
I am a leftist focused on capital’s ravaging of our bodies, our democratic structures, and the living systems that support our collective existence.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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artificial intelligence belongs to a species of political Leviathans, projecting concerted collective action at a distance.
Dennis Yi Tenen • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
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Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
This reorientation toward agriculture threw most of humanity into a state similar to that of the rice-farming Agta, grappling with something new: the continuous monotony of unvarying work, all day long, day after day.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
For a long time things seemed to go to plan, with improvements in productivity feeding through to higher wages and an increasingly widespread abundance.