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📚 Against the Machine by: Paul Kingsnorth

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural ...

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How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.

It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Writing in the tradition of Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul and Simone Weil, Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic, poetic, and erudite, Against the Machine is the spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.

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📚 Careless People by: Sarah Wynn-Williams

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

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An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to lean in.

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the conse

🥳 We’re sending major congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Iván Chaar López! Iván’s book The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion is out now from Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cybernetic-border

#LSA2024 #LatinxStudiesAssociation #LatinAmericanStudies #ChicanxStudies #HistoryOfTechnology #MediaStudies #LatinxMediaStudies #TechnologyStudies #IoFAuthors #DukeUP #ReadUP #NewBookAlert

Cover of The Cybernetic Border, with drone footage of the US-Mexico border arranged in a checkerboard pattern

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Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."

Deadline: 20/03/2024

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803

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#LibraryScience #InformationManagement #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalBusinessStudies #PoliticalTheory #Publishing #MediaIndustries #DataScience #MediaManagement #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies #ethics #Anthropology #DigitalHumanities

Join us in celebrating #IoFAuthor Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd! Raven’s book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age is available from #UCPress. It would make a great addition to reading lists in #BlackStudies #MediaStudies and #TechnologyStudies.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390034/black-networked-resistance?utm_content=bufferb5b07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

#NewBookAlert #AfricanAmericanStudies #DigitalStudies #BlackHistory #AmReading #CiteBlackWomen #ReadUP

🎬 Join us for the final online talk that the #technologystudies group at the University of St. Gallen is hosting!

☑️ @francislee will be presenting on absences and their politics
☑️ Friday 12 January 2024 at 14:15 CET
☑️ more information & link: https://rb.gy/ukmm7s
☑️ organized by #AnnaMann as part of her research project on “(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End”

#STS #absences #exclusion #Zika #politicsoftechnology

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Recommended reading:

Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

A brilliant synthesis in which Rogers Brubaker charts the social consequences of a world in which everyone and everything are connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time.

Tailor-made for teaching!

#Commodon #MediaStudies #STS #Sociology #Digitalization #Technology #TechnologyStudies #SocialMedia

The cover of Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

Check out this *free* conference on "Everyday Life in Digitalized Worlds"

When: October 25-27, 2023

Where: Oslo, Norway

Registration deadline: August 15

#STS #Anthropology #Commodon #Digitalization #TechnologyStudies #MediaStudies

Fun fact: nuclear tests were a tourist attraction in 1950s Vegas

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/atomic-tourism-nevada/ #Oppenheimer #histodons #sts #history #Nuclearweapons #vegas #histtech #TechnologyStudies

A group of people watching a nuclear blast from a distance

🥕 New publication “At first, I was only a subscriber”: re-mediating food citizens’ #Solidarity practices through digital technologies with #AlineStehrenberger #TechnologyStudies #UniversityofStGallen
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yc6xcebr
#Sustainable #FoodSystems #DigitalFoodStudies

@markigra More disciplines currently supported by the Find Academics on Mastodon (https://find.sciences.social/) tool.

#Philosophers and #PhilosophyTeachers
#PoliticalScientists
#Psychology
#PublicPolicy
#Science and #TechnologyStudies ( #STS )
#SemanticWeb
#Sociology

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#twittermigration #academics

Join us for an online lecture series on '#assetization in practice' at #TechnologyStudies team based at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences supported by the Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology & Society. The series focuses on the variety of practices involved in assetizing #food and #music. No prior registration required.