The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.
Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI
The Luddites are back in fashion, but too many people still get them all wrong. This is what they really stood for, fought against, and why they matter now more than ever.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years. But, turns out, they were right
Things did not end well for the Luddites. The group of weavers and textile artisans in early 1800s were crushed by the British government after resisting the destruction of their livelihoods by industrialization. History, in one of its callous twists, recast their story from a workers’ revolt for fair treatment to a short-sighted war against technology and progress.
Ludonarrative dissonance
Ludonarrative dissonance is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the non-interactive elements and the narrative told through the gameplay. Ludonarrative refers to the intersection of a video game's ludic elements (gameplay) and narrative elements. The term was coined by game designer Clint Hocking in 2007 in a blog post.
Dear Uneducated Voters - the Time for Willful Stupidity is Over
New Treatment Guideline, Same Old Denialism
The science is clear. CBT and GET are not useful treatments for ME/CFS. But cognitive dissonance is a powerful force, and we can fully expect continued denials from the conspiratorial fringe
Lutnick: Anthropic is "back on the right side" with Trump administration
The statement marks a remarkable turnaround in a relationship strained by a bitter fight over national security and AI safeguards.
The Luddite
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites
What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us about the coming war in the job market
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In Defence of Luddism
There is a war on, but only one side is armed: this is the essence of the technology question today.1 On the one side is private capital, scientized and subsidized, mobile and global, and now heavily armed with military-spawned command, control, and communication technologies. Empowered by the second industrial revolution, capital is moving decisively now to enlarge and consolidate the social dominance it secured in the first.
