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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 2d

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

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 22d

"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

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22d

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...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22d

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."

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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jul 22

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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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · May 28

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!

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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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Mar 10

Yikes 😬

Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Feb 26

Starting the year off strong with a new article in Trauma, Violence & Abuse! 🎉

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Feb 19

🧡🧡🧡 Here's the link to the amazing book!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Feb 12

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

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Jan 30

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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Molly White @molly.wiki · Jan 14

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

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Emma Quilty @emmaquilty.bsky.social · Jan 12

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):

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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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jan 5

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

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Dec 12

This is unbelievably good www.youtube.com/shorts/J_swG...

United Health

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Dec 10

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.

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