Image The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy - David Graeber According to Graeber’s bureaucratic procedures “are invariably ways of managing…
What ought to be the anarchist attitude towards the machine - Marcus Graham A 1934 article by Marcus Graham that is critical of technology.
Image The obsolescence of man - Volume 2 - Günther Anders Now, for the first time in English translation, The Obsolescence of Man, Volume II, in its entirety, by Günther Anders, first published in…
Image Throwing stones at progress - Miguel Amorós A relentless denunciation of the concept of “progress”, tracing its ideological roots to Saint Augustine and then to Turgot, its use in the…
Image A cyborg manifesto: science, technology and socialist feminism in the late 20th century - Donna Haraway Biologist and socialist feminist Donna Haraway's influential 1984 essay suggesting…
Image The ecology of freedom: the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy - Murray Bookchin “The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by…
Image Aircraft carrier imperialism - Amadeo Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga examines the significance of sea power in modern imperialism after the decline of the land-based feudal empires of Europe, the…
Image The culture industry in the 21st century - Robert Kurz In this revised and expanded version of a 2010 talk, Robert Kurz examines the continuing relevance,…
Image Love your monsters - Bruno Latour Bruno Latour argues that a post-environmentalism needs to accept that human society cannot be disentangled from non-human nature. This means…
Image Anti-developmentalism: what it is and what it wants - Miguel Amorós A 2014 restatement of the meaning of “anti-developmentalism” by the Spanish activist and author,…
Image Notes on technological domination and the myth of the citizen - Some Enemies of the Best of All Transgenic Worlds Published in Spain in 2000, this withering critique of biotechnology—composed in…
Image The mad history of the world - Michel Bounan In this book first published in France in 2006, Michel Bounan recounts the history of the world according to a developmental schema defined not…