This month, we’re Theorizing the Luddites. Luddism is a term that is often thrown around to describe someone who might seem anti-technology for the sake of being anti-technology. Or maybe someone who’s afraid of progress and the new. But it’s a complicated term with a complicated history—one that can teach us a lot, especially those of us interested in theorizing technology. And so that’s the goal of this month’s episodes: we’ve got five brilliant contributors who have all put a lot of thought into how we might think about and what we might learn from the Luddite movement of the early 19th century. We’re joined by Andrew Culp, Thomas Dekeyser, Miriam Cherry, Sarah Sharma, and Gavin Mueller.Week 4 features Gavin, whose book, Breaking Things at Work, sort of inspired this month’s topic. He will help us lead a broader discussion.We’d really like to hear from you on what you think. Leave us a comment on your favorite podcast app, drop us a note at [email protected], or join our Discord.TtW is a volunteer-led non-profit organization. Our conferences have always been pay-what-you-can and rather than put any special content or merch behind yet another Patreon for you to sign up for, we’re asking you to give what you can when you can if you can. We’ll hopefully release new merch along the way, NPR style, to entice a donation here or there.For full transcript of this episode, click here.

This month, we’re Theorizing the Luddites. Luddism is a term that is often thrown around to describe someone who might seem anti-technology for the sake of being anti-technology. Or maybe someone who’s afraid of progress and the new. But it’s a complicated term with a complicated history—one that can teach us a lot, especially those of us interested in theorizing technology. And so that’s the goal of this month’s episodes: we’ve got five brilliant contributors who have all put a lot of thought into how we might think about and what we might learn from the Luddite movement of the early 19th century. We’re joined by Andrew Culp, Thomas Dekeyser, Miriam Cherry, Sarah Sharma, and Gavin Mueller.Week 3 features Sarah, who challenges the seeming simplicity of the Luddite fantasy.We’d really like to hear from you on what you think. Leave us a comment on your favorite podcast app, drop us a note at [email protected], or join our Discord.TtW is a volunteer-led non-profit organization. Our conferences have always been pay-what-you-can and rather than put any special content or merch behind yet another Patreon for you to sign up for, we’re asking you to give what you can when you can if you can. We’ll hopefully release new merch along the way, NPR style, to entice a donation here or there.For full transcript of this episode, click here.

This month, we’re Theorizing the Luddites. Luddism is a term that is often thrown around to describe someone who might seem anti-technology for the sake of being anti-technology. Or maybe someone who’s afraid of progress and the new. But it’s a complicated term with a complicated history—one that can teach us a lot, especially those of us interested in theorizing technology. And so that’s the goal of this month’s episodes: we’ve got five brilliant contributors who have all put a lot of thought into how we might think about and what we might learn from the Luddite movement of the early 19th century. We’re joined by Andrew Culp, Thomas Dekeyser, Miriam Cherry, Sarah Sharma, and Gavin Mueller.Week 2 features Miriam on what the world might look like if the Luddites had won.We’d really like to hear from you on what you think. Leave us a comment on your favorite podcast app, drop us a note at [email protected], or join our Discord.TtW is a volunteer-led non-profit organization. Our conferences have always been pay-what-you-can and rather than put any special content or merch behind yet another Patreon for you to sign up for, we’re asking you to give what you can when you can if you can. We’ll hopefully release new merch along the way, NPR style, to entice a donation here or there.For full transcript of this episode, click here.

This month, we’re Theorizing the Luddites. Luddism is a term that is often thrown around to describe someone who might seem anti-technology for the sake of being anti-technology. Or maybe someone who’s afraid of progress and the new. But it’s a complicated term with a complicated history—one that can teach us a lot, especially those of us interested in theorizing technology. And so that’s the goal of this month’s episodes: we’ve got five brilliant contributors who have all put a lot of thought into how we might think about and what we might learn from the Luddite movement of the early 19th century. We’re joined by Andrew Culp, Thomas Dekeyser, Miriam Cherry, Sarah Sharma, and Gavin Mueller.Week 1 features Andrew and Thomas talking about their film, Machines in Flames. We’d really like to hear from you on what you think. Leave us a comment on your favorite podcast app, drop us a note at [email protected], or join our Discord. TtW is a volunteer-led non-profit organization. Our conferences have always been pay-what-you-can and rather than put any special content or merch behind yet another Patreon for you to sign up for, we’re asking you to give what you can when you can if you can. We’ll hopefully release new merch along the way, NPR style, to entice a donation here or there. For full transcript of this episode, click here.

Welcome to the Theorizing the Web Podcast! The way this will work is, if you’re familiar with our in-person format, sort of like a hybrid invited-panel and keynote. Each month, we’ll have a topic and three speakers who will share with you some work they’ve done on that topic. These are the sort of bite-sized 20-ish minute episodes you’ll see in the first three weeks of the month. In the fourth week, we’ll release a longer, 45-ish minute episode where a guest whose work on the subject is pretty significant will help lead a discussion on that topic.We’d really like to hear from you on what you think. Leave us a comment on your favorite podcast app, drop us a note at [email protected], or join our Discord—in fact, you may have already found out about this podcast before anyone else on that Discord, you lucky person, you.TtW is a volunteer-led non-profit organization. Our conferences have always been pay-what-you-can and rather than put any special content or merch behind yet another Patreon for you to sign up for, we’re asking you to give what you can when you can if you can. We’ll hopefully release new merch along the way, NPR style, to entice a donation here or there.For full transcript of this episode, see drive.google.com/file/d/1A2NDmEss…view?usp=sharing