Solarpunk: A Fantasy Solution to Technological Dystopia
Article by Genesis
"It is time to remove the rose-tinted glasses of technological development and aim towards an effective solution that does not perpetuate, but puts an end to its destructive impulse.”
Black Box: Self-Surveillance and Societal Control
Article by Emphour
"The Event Data Recorder... is part of a wider trend in technological society that increasingly restricts and controls people's freedom, encroaches on their privacy, and tries to mold human behavior to fit the confines of the technological system."
The Decay of Relationships in the Modern World
Article by Potash
"You can’t take an animal out of an environment which it has spent millions of years adapting to and expect it to prosper when thrust into radically different conditions. And yet, that is exactly what the technological system has done to the human race."
Central Bank Reform Will Not Restore Human Dignity
Article by Robert
“If your worldview on banking has been reduced to the slogan: ‘End the Fed’, you owe it to yourself now to think about what that implies. Does it mean to tear down the central banks with no alternative? Or does it mean you want a more "fair," stable, and thus, more powerful system?”
Review of “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All“
Book review by qpooqpoo
Review of “Power and Progress”
Book review by Emphour
"Acemoglu and Johnson paint a bleak picture of the present and near future in their 2023 book Power and Progress. Neither are the suggested solutions effective nor are their goals desirable."
Review of “Life 3.0”
Book review by qpooqpoo
“This book is essentially a religious testament, an ode so to speak, to the nascent faith of technological progress…”
Review of “Can Life Prevail?”
Book review by Chess
”Is Linkola's philosophy as radical and disruptive as his critics and fans make him out to be? “
Review of “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”
Book review by Squalor
“While Jensen’s work arrives at one of the same conclusions as Kaczynski—that in order to save wild nature the industrial system must be brought down, sooner rather than later—it misses the mark entirely in nearly every other respect.”
Review of “Utopia for Realists”
Book review by AlexanderTheWake
“Progress-obsessed neo-liberals are not new, you can find them and their books plastered on the walls of any chain bookshop. So what makes Utopia for Realists stand out among the regular cult classics of technophilia?”
Excerpts from Kaczynski's letter to Anonymous, July 1st, 2003.
Excerpts from a letter from Ted Kaczynski touching on anarchism, anthropocentrism, and Deep Ecology.
Ship of Fools
A short story by Ted Kaczynski
“Once upon a time, the captain and the mates of a ship grew so vain of their seamanship, so full of hubris and so impressed with themselves, that they went mad…”
Review of “Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins”
Book review by Karaçam
“…In [this book], Lorenz investigates eight problems that have been created by human civilization and threaten its existence. As we will see during our investigation, modern technology is the common thread that links all of these problems together...”
Review of “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”
Book review by qpooqpoo
Review of “The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945”
Book review by qpooqpoo