Publication
Verso (2021), 352 pages
ISBN
1788734319 / 9781788734318
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment of Country
1. We Need a Usable Past for a Democratic Future: A Spanish Prince’s Automaton and an American Novelist’s Living History
2. An Internet Built around Consumption Is a Bad Place to Live: Cityscapes, as Imagined by Sigmund Freud and Jane Jacobs
3. Digital Surveillance Cannot Make Us Safe: Policing Bodies and Time on London’s Docks
4. Technology Is as Biased as Its Makers: Exploding Cars, Racist Algorithms, and Design Beholden to the Bottom Line
5. Technological Utopianism Is Dangerous: The Tech Billionaires Have Nothing on the Paris Commune
6. Collaborative Work Is Liberating and Effective: Poetical Philosophy, from Lovelace to Linux
7. Digital Citizenship Is a Collective Endeavor: Tom Paine’s Revolutionary Idea of Public Participation
8. Automation Can Mean Less Work and More Living: Downing Tools So We Can Build Robots to Eat the Rich
9. We Need Digital Self-Determination, Not Just Privacy: Frantz Fanon Theorizes Freedom
10. The Digital World Is an Environment That Needs to Be Cared For: Ancient Forms of Governance Hold Relevance for Modern Infrastructure
11. Protect the Digital Commons!: Socialize the Cows
Conclusion: History Is for the Future: Another World Is on Its Way
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Acknowledgment of Country
1. We Need a Usable Past for a Democratic Future: A Spanish Prince’s Automaton and an American Novelist’s Living History
2. An Internet Built around Consumption Is a Bad Place to Live: Cityscapes, as Imagined by Sigmund Freud and Jane Jacobs
3. Digital Surveillance Cannot Make Us Safe: Policing Bodies and Time on London’s Docks
4. Technology Is as Biased as Its Makers: Exploding Cars, Racist Algorithms, and Design Beholden to the Bottom Line
5. Technological Utopianism Is Dangerous: The Tech Billionaires Have Nothing on the Paris Commune
6. Collaborative Work Is Liberating and Effective: Poetical Philosophy, from Lovelace to Linux
7. Digital Citizenship Is a Collective Endeavor: Tom Paine’s Revolutionary Idea of Public Participation
8. Automation Can Mean Less Work and More Living: Downing Tools So We Can Build Robots to Eat the Rich
9. We Need Digital Self-Determination, Not Just Privacy: Frantz Fanon Theorizes Freedom
10. The Digital World Is an Environment That Needs to Be Cared For: Ancient Forms of Governance Hold Relevance for Modern Infrastructure
11. Protect the Digital Commons!: Socialize the Cows
Conclusion: History Is for the Future: Another World Is on Its Way
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index