68. Fight for Your Right (to Repair)
We give y’all a primer on the debates about the “right to repair.” Corporations and conservative think tankers love spouting bad faith arguments that frame the right to repair as an issue of innovatio...
13 Maj 20211h 11min
67. Klobbering Klobuchar vs. Howling Hawley (patreon promo)
We give y’all an update on the state of antitrust politics in the US by riffing on two new books about antitrust that offer two different visions from two senators: Amy Klobuchar and Josh Hawley. It’s...
8 Maj 20212min
66. Down and Out in the Neoliberal Code Academy (ft. Daniel Greene)
We’re joined by Dan Greene, author of an excellent new book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Dan’s work provides a deep analysis of how public institu...
5 Maj 20211h 19min
65. TMK Book Club (Part 1) (patreon teaser)
The TMK Book Club is now in session! We’re discussing the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought by Langdon Winner. Follow along w...
1 Maj 20217min
64. Platform Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
Cold open: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/13/984994360/he-tried-to-organize-workers-in-chinas-gig-economy-now-he-faces-5-years-in-jail We dig deeper into our explorations of technological and financial...
29 Apr 20211h 37min
63. Prime Labor, Living and Dead (patreon teaser)
In part two of our analysis of Amazon, we focus on the labor processes and managerial practices within Amazon warehouses. “Factory work exhausts the nervous system to the uttermost,” Marx wrote in Cap...
24 Apr 20218min
62. Amazon, Vanguard of Class War (ft. Alex N. Press)
To conduct a post-mortem investigation on the Amazon warehouse union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, we’re joined by Alex N. Press—staff writer for Jacobin and one of our favorite labor reporters. As Alex ...
21 Apr 20211h 29min
61. Potemkin AI (patreon teaser)
Cold open: Ghost in the Shell There is a long list of services that purport to be powered by sophisticated software, but actually rely on humans acting like robots. We discuss a critical concept—whet...
17 Apr 202110min
