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Abolish Tech

Machines need us more than we need machines. How to understand ways the tech boom is a product of greed and uncaring, how it creates false needs and promises, and how we can fight against the de-skilling tech presents. Episodes that liberate by remaining us of our capacities.

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Creeps and Their Contradictions—“What Tech Calls Governing” with Adrian Daub

Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Gender, Media, Politics and Culture, Technologies, Abolish Tech, Neoliberalism in Name and in Practice

Today it’s a special pleasure to welcome Adrian Daub back to Speaking Out of Place to discuss his new book, “What Tech Calls Governing.” This is a devastatingly brilliant and immensely witty critique of Silicon Valley “disruptors” and the fragile, clueless egos of...

Muskism—its roots, nature, and how to fight it: A Conversation with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

Bullshit and Infinity: Why AI Cannot Predict Anything: A Conversation with Carissa Véliz

Erin McElroy: Hacking in “Postsocialist” Times—Unbecoming Silicon ValleyEpisode

Materializing the Cloud—Breaking Tech’s Spell Over Us with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang

Omar Zahzah: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle

Talking with Karen Hao About Empire of AI and the Colonizing Logic Behind AI

Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons–A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu

The Journey Toward Everything for Everyone: A Conversation with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi

‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists, and Phobic Misogynists: A Conversation with Becca Lewis

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