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281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)
This Machine Kills
The Link Between Babbage, Marx, and Labor Control
The speaker discusses the connection between Babbage and Marx's writings, and their discovery of the Babbage Principle. They explore the division of labor, industrial mechanisms for controlling workers, and the prototype engines for modern computation. The chapter also highlights the similarities between past and present techno-capitalist systems.
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