What We Talk About When We Talk About "The Machine"

Or, Why Not Just Burn the Whole Thing Down?

Discontent with technology is a thorny briar patch, with some weird friends. We ask questions about what then is to be done, if blowing it all up isn’t the way forward.

Uncomfortable Bedfellows of the Localism Discourse

For some time now, the gold standard of localism discourse, at least on Substack, has been Paul Kingsnorth. In his long-form essays on “…