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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, Brian Merchant

The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism

This article will be released in full online December 23, 2023.

Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant’s timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism? | more…

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