About Jathan Sadowski

Jathan Sadowski studies the political economy of technology. He is a research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in the Faculty of Information Technology and in the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society in the Faculty of Arts, both at Monash University. Jathan is also the author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World (The MIT Press, 2020).

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I’m a Luddite. You should be one too

August 27, 2021

I’m a Luddite. You should be one too

by Jathan Sadowski • Comment, Technology

I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist who studies how new technologies affect politics, economics and society. For me, Luddism is not a naïve feeling, but a considered position. And once you know what Luddism actually stands for, I’m willing to bet you will be one too — or at least much more sympathetic to the Luddite cause than you think. More →