Anarchism NewsAug 8, 2025
Institute for Social Ecology: **An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology**

https://social-ecology.org/wp/2025/08/praxis-of-social-ecology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=praxis-of-social-ecology

A review of Eleanor Finley's new book, Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
The post An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology appeared first on Institute for Social Ecology.

#ArticleArchive #Author #BookReviews #BrianTokar
Show threadbsmall2May 28, 2025
🧵 LLM implementation pattern?
> .. to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge and flexibility that was shared among manual machine operators. The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in the hands of engineers and managers.
#WhiteCollarAI as #MachineTools
#NoblesMachineTools #DavidNoble thru #BrianTokar
bs2Mar 1, 2024
Reading #AndreasMalm's _ #FossilCapital _ convinces me again that #ProgressIsALie. An article by #BrianTokar sent me to Malm's books and they seem very helpful so far. They complement #AmitavGhosh's doubts about the "#Anthropocene" term:
> .. if some humans introduced steam power against the explicit resistance of other humans, then it would be hard to maintain a notion of it as the expression of a species-wide project... steam arose as a form of power exercised by some people against others..
bs2Oct 26, 2023
> ... watermills remained far more efficient and reliable for several decades into the coal era, and there was never a shortage of potential sites for new water-powered textile mills. However rural workers who lived along England’s riverbanks were far more independent-minded and more likely to abandon the mills when working conditions became too onerous, vs. often-desperate urban workers..
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#BrianTokar #AndreasMalm #OnTechnology #WaterMills #SteamEngines #TextileMills
On Technology’s Past and Future

The development of GMOs and gene-edited crops reaffirms the many ways in which new technologies both reflect and help reinforce the commercial imperatives, and the larger social matrix, from which they emerged

ZNetwork
bs2Jan 28, 2022
> David Noble’s detailed examination of the origins of numerically controlled machine tools in the mid-20th century. ... to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge... The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in... managers.
- https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#progress #tech #BrianTokar #DavidNoble
Zcomm » On Technology’s Past and Future