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Jonathan Levy-Forcada
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Visual artist based in Geneva CH
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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
jlevyforcada.bsky.social
« l'enquête est arrivé à la conclusion que les fonctions n'étaient pas en soi incorrectes, mais que la procédure de leur implémentation dans le modèle ne présentait pas la rigueur méthodologique nécessaire »
How not to admit any mistake, swiss style

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Les perspectives financières erronées de l'AVS n’étaient pas liées à une faute de calcul
En l'absence d'opérations erronées, on ne peut pas parler d'erreur de calcul dans la mauvaise évaluation des perspectives financières de l'AVS établies par l'OFAS. C'est ce que révèle l'enquête admini...
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December 7, 2024 at 6:39 AM
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lippoenen.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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amprestigepod.bsky.social
Re-Post - This Land is Their Land w/ David Silverman

Enjoy our 2022 episode on the historical Thanksgiving with David Silverman, author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving.

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November 27, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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parismarx.com
so cool that right as we’re flying past 1.5ºC of warming, we have three climate conferences in a row in authoritarian (at least quasi-)petrostates to ensure fuck all happens to change that
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 PM