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Jeff Hunt Jeff Hunt said: " The trouble with being a “Fox” is that the world rarely rewards the nuance you’ve worked so hard to develop. The “Hedgehogs” get the microphones, and you’re left slogging through the technical arcana of a 344-page academic treatise.

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Book cover for Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
The Welsh poet R. S. Thomas described it chillingly in his poem ‘Other,’ in a verse I have never forgotten since I first read it: …The machine appeared In the distance, singing to itself Of money. Its song was the web They were caught in, ...more
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Omar El Akkad
“Whatever late capitalism is, it seems to be careening into this embrace of growth by negation. Through that prism, it’s hard not to see the advances in something like artificial intelligence less driven by technological breakthroughs as by a society that has, over years, over decades, become normalized to a greater and greater magnitude of both loneliness and theft, such that a sputtering algorithm badly trained on the stolen work of real human beings might be celebrated with a straight face as something approximating humanness.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Paul Kingsnorth
“If Brave New World points us towards the emerging Total System of the Machine”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth
“This in turn is partly due to conservatism’s other flaw: its love affair with private property and the sovereign individual. Each of these things can be a necessary bulwark against the top-down collectivism of the left”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth
“Whatever we think our politics are (and they are likely to be the least important thing about us)”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

Paul Kingsnorth
“I understood why people would topple statues of long-dead slave traders whilst filming the whole thing on smartphones made by actual”
Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

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