Category: Technology
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Capitalizing on the COVID Crisis: the Ford Government’s Move to Privatize Public Education for EdTech
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein demonstrated how neoliberalism was not always advanced in society through democracy, but was instead pushed on society by powerful elites behind the public’s back … Keep reading »
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Beyond Digital Capitalism
MEP SR21 Beyond Digital Capitalism Series Moderated by Michael Lardner. Presentations by: Stephen Maher: “Remembering Leo Panitch and Beyond Capitalism.” Stephen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, … Watch video »
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UK Launch of The Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism
As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and … Watch video »
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Ghoulish EdTech Innovations
We speak with Tanner Mirrlees about the dark and underdiscussed world of education technology and the information communication technology (ICT) industry. Listen to audio »
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Inhuman Power: AI and the Future of Capitalism
Book launch with authors Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff’s, Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2019). Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major … Watch video »
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The Digital Revolution and its Discontents
Tanner Mirrlees (Ontario Tech University), gives the opening talk on day two of Aion Network’s Rebuild Genesis conference, April 24, 2019. Watch video »
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Sneak peek: Segment on Wikileaks, Data Activism, and Information Freedom
Oats continues the interview with Julian von Bargen on the contradictions of hacktivism. Listen to audio »
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Wikileaks, Data Activism, and Information Freedom w/ Julian von Bargen
Oats interviews Julian von Bargen about the saga of Wikileaks, the ethics of public interest leaking, and the pitfalls of data activism. Listen to audio »
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Book launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart
Launch of Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski’s new book The People’s Republic of Walmart. Moderated by Rawan Abdelbaki; discussants Pam Frache and Sam Gindin. Recorded in Toronto, 8 April 2019. Watch video »
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Hotels vs Housing? Platforms, Rent and Resistance in Toronto
Whether it is called the collaborative, platform, crowd-sourcing, or ‘sharing’ economy, the rise of peer-to-peer exchanges raises important questions for workers and unions. Watch video »
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Praise the Workers, Not Amazon
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass declared 161 years ago. Last week saw that truth on broad display as Amazon, facing growing political and organizing pressure, … Keep reading »
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Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
“We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves,” proclaimed a shop steward at Lucas Aerospace when filmed by … Keep reading »