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There is an inner affinity between technological determinism, which is the core of the automation discourse, and its recourse to technocratic solutions. Both positions elide difficult social and political questions by transforming them into putatively objective facts.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
It is now very clear that what we have for the longest time called “colonialism” was nothing more than the global abuse of labor by capital times geography.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for.
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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