Vaccine Passports Aren’t Just Unfair, They Don’t Work
James Meadway
Boris Johnson’s medical apartheid wouldn't even be effective.
Tag: technology
When Will China Be the World’s Most Powerful Country? Interview With Martin Jacques
Will the 2020s be the decade when power decisively shifts from the United States to China? How important is the country’s rise in broader historic context – and is that why we are seeing an emerging Cold War between Washington and Beijing? And do appeals to a ‘civilisation-state’ undermine the power of universal values and […]
Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs
‘To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.’ Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.
No, Benefit Claimants Still Aren’t Exploiting the System
Josh Gabert-Doyon
The Rapid Development of Covid Vaccines Shows How Healthcare Will Completely Change. But Who Will Benefit?
Aaron Bastani
The Lawyers Leading the UK’s Fight Against Unjust Algorithms
Josh Gabert-Doyon
Can Lab-Grown Meat Save the World? Aaron Bastani Meets Michael Selden
On this week’s Downstream, Aaron Bastani meets Mike Selden, co-founder of Finless Foods – a cellular agriculture business in California – to find out whether lab-grown meat can live up to the hype.
Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]
The TikTok Saga Shows How the Internet and Technology Are Political
Aaron Bastani
How Big Tech Helped Cities Become an Incubator for the Greatest Currency of Our Age: Loneliness
Sophie McKay
The Left Must Embrace the Radical Potential of Technology – Or Face Political Defeat
Aaron Bastani
Clear Bright Future: Paul Mason on Radical Humanism
James Butler is joined by Paul Mason to discuss his new book, Clear Bright Future. In a time of political repression and looming technological dystopia, can resistance be found in a renewed understanding of humanity itself?
Are You Gonna Go Huawei? 5G and the Rise of AI Nationalism
James Meadway
After Work?
James Butler is joined by Will Stronge, director of the think tank Autonomy, to discuss the future of work.
Extinction Rebellion? George Monbiot on the Politics of Climate Change
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by George Monbiot to discuss the launch of Extinction Rebellion, and the politics of the climate movement.
Forget Surveillance Capitalism – It’s Time to Build a Digital Commons
Mathew Lawrence
Vijay Prashad: Neoliberalism, Global Capital & the Indian Left
In a #NovaraFM special from TWT, James Butler is joined by Vijay Prashad to discuss neoliberalism, the transformations of global capitalism and the Indian Left.
A New Dark Age?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by James Bridle, to discuss the politics of technology, silicon prometheanism, how to think about the present – and why nothing seemed to happen after the Snowden leaks.