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Anarchist shaping of technology

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posted on 2024-11-13, 22:22 authored by Brian MartinBrian Martin
Technology pervades modern life, from cars and computers to paper and clothing. Food might have organic origins but has been processed and transported using a variety of technologies. Even bodies have become technologically manipulated and transformed through hair coloring, glasses, prostheses and plastic surgery. Humans create technology and use it, so it is sensible to say that technology is political in the sense that it involves or embodies the exercise of power. This is an obvious opening for anarchist analysis. Anarchism can be said to involve a rejection of any form of domination, including by the state, capitalism, patriarchy and humans (over nature), and instead the promotion of non-hierarchical, collectively organized systems. How, then, should technology fit into anarchism?

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Martin, B. (2015). Anarchist shaping of technology. Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, (63), 11-15.

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Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

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63

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11-15

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English

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98578

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