Wess Daniels

A great of Tech Won’t Save Us about the Luddite Club with a number of High School students that started up a few years ago, how it happened, and what they are up to now.

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https://overcast.fm/+AAZpQB3jD7Y

The Luddite Club is For Everyone w/ Amanda Hanna-McLeer & Lucy Jackson — Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Hanna-McLeer and Lucy Jackson to discuss the story of The Luddite Club, from its beginnings as a high school organization to its pivot into a non-profit and growth into an international movement. Amanda Hanna-McLeer is a writer, educator, and director of The Luddite Club documentary. Lucy Jackson is an early member of the Luddite Club. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon. The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Also mentioned in this episode: The original New York Times article featuring the club Amanda shouts out Brian Merchant’s book The One Device and Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing The film discussed was John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi horror film They Live

Feb 28 at 8:13pmWeb
Show threadFlipMar 1
@wess listening to this now, very interesting! They mentioned How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell, a book I read a few years ago and really LOVED at the time.
Show threadWess DanielsMar 1
@flpm Same! I was glad to hear this was an inspiration. I’ve been using her book in a class I do on the practice of silence at Guilford and the students (usually) love it as well.