Decentralization, Insecurity, and the Need for Organizing

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Exploring the concept of decentralization and its implications, including the unexpected consequences in American public education. The chapter also analyzes manufactured insecurity and suggests ways to counteract it for a better future.

Paris Marx is joined by Astra Taylor to discuss how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself, the way tech is used to make us more insecure, and what it will take to change that.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and political organizer. She’s the author of The Age of Insecurity and co-founder of the Debt Collective. Her next book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, comes out in March.

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 produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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Astra wrote about the Insecurity Machine for Logic Magazine and the Dads of Tech for The Baffler.
Find excerpts from The Age of Insecurity in The New York Times and The Walrus.
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