Unfortunately in the USA:

How can the 19th century history of the Luddites help us understand contemporary resistance to workplace technology? What does New Luddism look like on the ground? As an analytic framework, what are its strengths and weaknesses for understanding the current state of labor, worker resistance, and the tech industry?

This one-day conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from sociology, economics, history, and other disciplines, as well as journalists, organizers, and workers with firsthand knowledge of the implementation of new technologies in the workplace. Through a series of themed panels and workshops, the conference will provide a forum for these groups to discuss the utility of the New Luddism framework, its drawbacks, and its implications in research and in practice.

You must look at this amazing artifact out of the BERG cluster in London. I’d like to call this “the greatest design-fiction writing I’ve ever seen,” but (a) it’s not about design, (b) it’s not fictional and (c) it’s not even writing.

This is new. The web has broken a lot of silos between the disciplines in the past 10 years, but this is a new thing that is visibly rising out of that rubble. It’s contemporary creative work which pops on the screen like a web page, but it feels like it wants to be art history, a comic book, an embedded video, a special FX anime movie… It even wants to plan a utopian city.

It’s not possible to read this in the way that texts were once read. Accessing this changes the way you walk in the street and the way you look out the window. This is not a traditional manifesto. There’s something different and hallucinatory and transformative about this. All those links, those correlations of ideas, those connections to real-world projects…. It feels like it ought