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Emma Quilty
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anthropologist | research fellow at Monash @_CEVAW | STS | gender, tech & society | new book on feminism & witchcraft coming out October

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2(ish) weeks until the New York launch of Witch Power! So excited for this one!!

Here's the link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/witch-powe...
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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“Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific” by @emmaquilty.bsky.social

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“Colonial investments in infrastructure, resorts, roads, railways, and telecommunication systems played a crucial role in promoting the unequal economic systems that persist to this day. Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them.”
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Brooklyn folks! Come to the launch at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick on November 7th for my lovely wife @emmaquilty.bsky.social's new book WITCH POWER.

Emma is a feminist anthropologist whose book offers a captivating, critical, and deeply personal analysis of the witch as a cultural figure.
Witch Power: A Journey Into Contemporary Witchcraft with Emma Quilty Emma Quilty - Friday November 7th at 7pm - Hive Mind Books, 219 Irving Ave, Bushwick
October 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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jathansadowski.com
Looking forward to giving the keynote at this very cool conference in New York City next month along with so many other comrades-in-luddism — New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...
Reframing Our Relationship to Technology Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction
September 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points

Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of thes...
datasociety.net
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, @emmaquilty.bsky.social considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people. datasociety.net/points/confr...
Text on a green background that shows the new Points piece titled "Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific" by Emma Quilty. This blog is part of the series called "The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction."
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
My first physical copy of Witch Power has arrived!! The Melbourne book launch is on the 16th of Oct, here is the link to register: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

To pre-order the book: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...
August 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink!
• August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall
• Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...
Book Launch, 'The mechanic and the luddite'
Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill for the launch of 'The Mechanic and the Luddite'.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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ouranu.bsky.social
We will send the open letter to ANU executive and Council today at 3pm.

At 7.30am, we have 434 signatures. How high can we get before 3pm?

Tell your colleagues, spread the word!
ouranu.bsky.social Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · May 26
Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances.

ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 __________________________________________________ Letter to AN...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
New (and timely) book just arrived in my hands this morning! Co-authored with wonderful Sarah Pink.

Pre-orders available here: www.routledge.com/Can-We-Trust...
April 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
Starting the year off strong with a new article in Trauma, Violence & Abuse! 🎉

Technology-Facilitated Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review.

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Technology-Facilitated Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review - Emma Quilty, Asher Flynn, 2025
Technology-facilitated violence (TFV) refers to a range of malicious behaviors facilitated in part or in whole through information and communication technologie...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
🧡🧡🧡 Here's the link to the amazing book!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
Cybertruck man defying Musk vs Pod Man the techie douche-bro.
My money is on Cyber-truck man.

Image credit: Miranda Burton
Smug white cis-hetero dudebro in a suit works on his laptop while travelling in a self-driving pod whizzing down the highway while an automated coffee brews in the background.
February 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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In the new TMK Premium, I sat down with Sunaura Taylor in her lab at UC Berkeley for a big chat about her excellent new book—Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert—which brings together critical disability studies and environmental justice. www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...
Premium – 393. The Age of Disability Comes for Us All (ft. Sunaura Taylor) | This Machine Kills
Get more from This Machine Kills on Patreon
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February 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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AusSTS2025 @aussts.bsky.social is going to be here in Naarm/Melbourne in July, sponsored by Deakin's Science and Society Network + @sthv.bsky.social The call for proposals is now OPEN (closes 15 March) so please submit + spread the word: aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…
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January 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about
January 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
emmaquilty.bsky.social
Fab new op-ed on the future benefits AI promises to deliver and why they stink of desperation (and more often than not, fall short):
jathansadowski.com Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jan 12
New essay by me – I argue that the best way to understand artificial intelligence is via the Tinkerbell Effect. This technology's existence requires us to keep channeling our psychic energy into the dreams of mega-corporations, tech billionaires, and venture capitalists: futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Keep Clapping So It Doesn't Die
AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.
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January 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...
Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear. Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the deeper political economy that shapes the digital domain and, by extension, every facet of modern life -ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Security: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart "Smart, urgent, and bluntly powerful, this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand how technology gets made — and whom it's made to serve. The time for a thunderous new Luddite politics is now and Sadowski's accessible manifesto delivers" -BRIAN MERCHANT, author of flood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Sadowski's crisp and active prose generously illuminates technology's relationship to flows of money and power and the whims of those who wield them." MEREDITH WHITTAKER, Chief Advisor and Cofounder, Al Now Institute JATHAN SADOWSKI is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is author of Too Smart and host of the podcast This Machine Kills
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This is unbelievably good www.youtube.com/shorts/J_swG...
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December 12, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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BAY AREA FRIENDS – Come to my new book's launch on January 30th at 7pm (PST) at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco! It's gonna be a blast with special guests @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Registration is necessary but free: citylights.com/events/jatha...
Screenshot from the book launch's even page, which states: "Thursday, January 30, 2025, 7:00 pm PST Jathan Sadowski / The Mechanic and the Luddite This event will be held onsite at City Lights. It will also be broadcast on zoom. To experience the virtual part of the event you will need a device that can access the internet and registration is required. Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Brian Merchant and Edward Ongweso Jr discussing the new book The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism – By Jathan Sadowski – Published by University of California Press." Screenshot of the book cover for "The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism by Jathan Sadowski." The book cover is a bright, firey orange which features a wrench and hammer crossed in the centre and framed by a circular toothed gear.
December 10, 2024 at 3:15 AM