The Revolt Against Technology
In this video, I discuss the New Luddites we're seeing on college campuses. I try to place this movement in conversation with philosophers throughout history who have been critical of technology.
Topics include: the history of the Luddites, Plato on writing in the Phaedrus, Heidegger's 'The Question Concerning Technology', metrics and value capture, Attensity! by the Friends of Attention, and Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine
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→ Sources
1. Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
2. Attensity! By the Friends of Attention
3. Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
4. ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ by Martin Heidegger
5. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/he...
6. Plato’s Phaedrus
7. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/st...
8. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
9. https://dgrahamburnett.net/wp-content...
10. Technopoly by Neil Postman
→ Chapters
00:00 The New Luddites
00:58 From Plato to Postman
07:48 The Old Luddites
12:11 Heidegger on Enframing
14:46 Human Fracking
18:43 Metrics and Value Capture
23:31 The Future Never Arrived
29:28 Against the Machine?