“In machinery, knowledge appears as alien, external to him; and living labour as subsumed under self-activating objectified labour. The worker appears as superfluous to the extent that his action is not determined by capital’s requirements.” – Karl Marx Canterbury Socialist Society are excited to offer this bonus event to our regular schedule with a guest…
“A simply functional understanding of systems is insufficient; one needs to be able to think about histories and consequences too. Where did these systems come from, who designed them and what for, and which of these intentions still lurk within them today?”. — James Bridle The New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the…
“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.” – Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (1967) For our first…