Stop the machines / Mauro Lubrano

Public ISBD Titre : Stop the machines : The rise of anti-technology extremism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mauro Lubrano, Auteur Editeur : Polity Année de publication : 2025 Importance : 194 p Note générale : 01.03 LUB Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire  Technologies de l'information  Alternatives Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie col/num Résumé : As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of anti-technology violence across the globe. He identifies three main groups fuelling such resistance: insurrectionary anarchists, eco-extremists, and eco-fascists. Exploring the justifications that underlie the opposition to technology and the strategies employed to ‘stop the machines’, he shows how anti-tech extremism has emerged as a reaction to the Anthropocene – an attempt to undo the epoch of human domination. The intellectual flexibility of this ideology lends itself to different causes, from the class struggle against the techno-elites to the defence of nature and white supremacy. With fears about the risks of artificial intelligence mounting and the world beset by serious ‘polycrises’, what is currently a fragmented, fringe phenomenon holds the potential for dramatic escalation. Stop the machines : The rise of anti-technology extremism [texte imprimé] / Mauro Lubrano, Auteur . - UK : Polity, 2025 . - 194 p. 01.03 LUB Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire  Technologies de l'information  Alternatives Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie col/num Résumé : As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of anti-technology violence across the globe. He identifies three main groups fuelling such resistance: insurrectionary anarchists, eco-extremists, and eco-fascists. Exploring the justifications that underlie the opposition to technology and the strategies employed to ‘stop the machines’, he shows how anti-tech extremism has emerged as a reaction to the Anthropocene – an attempt to undo the epoch of human domination. The intellectual flexibility of this ideology lends itself to different causes, from the class struggle against the techno-elites to the defence of nature and white supremacy. With fears about the risks of artificial intelligence mounting and the world beset by serious ‘polycrises’, what is currently a fragmented, fringe phenomenon holds the potential for dramatic escalation.

TTIP / Ferdi De Ville

Public ISBD Titre : TTIP : the truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ferdi De Ville, Auteur ; Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Auteur Editeur : Polity Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 192 p Note générale : 03.02.VIL Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Commerce  Commerce de libre-échange  UE  Etats-Unis  Emploi  Croissance  TTIP Index. décimale : 03.02 Accords Commerciaux Résumé : The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services. In this incisive analysis, Gabriel Siles-Brugge and Ferdi de Ville scrutinize the claims made by TTIP's cheerleaders and scaremongers to reveal a far more nuanced picture behind the headlines. TTIP will not provide an economic 'cure-all', nor will it destroy the European welfare state in one fell swoop. Thanks to unprecedented levels of protest and debate around TTIP, however, neoliberal trade negotiations are well and truly back in the spotlight. In this respect, TTIP could well prove to be a 'game-changer' - just not in the way imagined by its backers. TTIP : the truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [texte imprimé] / Ferdi De Ville, Auteur ; Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Auteur . - UK : Polity, 2016 . - 192 p. 03.02.VIL Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Commerce  Commerce de libre-échange  UE  Etats-Unis  Emploi  Croissance  TTIP Index. décimale : 03.02 Accords Commerciaux Résumé : The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services. In this incisive analysis, Gabriel Siles-Brugge and Ferdi de Ville scrutinize the claims made by TTIP's cheerleaders and scaremongers to reveal a far more nuanced picture behind the headlines. TTIP will not provide an economic 'cure-all', nor will it destroy the European welfare state in one fell swoop. Thanks to unprecedented levels of protest and debate around TTIP, however, neoliberal trade negotiations are well and truly back in the spotlight. In this respect, TTIP could well prove to be a 'game-changer' - just not in the way imagined by its backers.

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