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<td>BTF event in Bristol and January Reading Group</td>
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<td>Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:45:52 +0000</td>
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<td>Ned Ludd <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:luddites200@btconnect.com"><luddites200@btconnect.com></a></td>
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1.<b>Breaking the Frame hosts speakers and discussion on</b><br>
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<p><b> </b><b>BORDERS AND TECHNOLOGY,</b><b><br>
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A look at contemporary and historical surveillance and control
over the movement of people, plus resistance.<br>
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Speakers from: <br>
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<li>Statewatch (statewatch.org),</li>
<li>Bristol Radical History (brh.org.uk)</li>
<li>and others to be confirmed.<br>
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<p>Fri Feb 20th 7-9pm 2015<br>
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Hydrabooks.org<br>
34 Old Market,<br>
Bristol,<br>
BS2 0EZ<br>
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<p>2.<b>The January 2015 BTF Reading Group</b> will be at LARC,
62 Fieldgate Street, E1 1ES at 7pm on Monday 19th January.
Nearest tube: Whitechapel.</p>
We will be looking at Marxism and technology (particularly
digital technology) by looking at some sections of Nick
Dyer-Witheford’s Cyber-Marx. The most important sections to read
if you can’t manage everything, are pages 1-5, 38-42, 48-54,
62-72 and 76-79.<br>
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For those who think that digital technology and the whole world
structured according to it 'just happened' because of clever
inventions by scientists, here is a quote from an article by
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a key figure in right-wing US politics for
the last fifty years, from 1968. Writing in the CIA-funded
Encounter magazine in an article called 'America in the
Technetronic Age', Brzezinski extols the potential of
electronics for social control: "Human conduct will become less
spontaneous and less mysterious - more predetermined and subject
to deliberate "programming." ... The same techniques could serve
to impose well-nigh total political surveillance on every
citizen, putting into much sharper relief than is the case today
the question of privacy.... The achievement-oriented society
might give way to the amusement-focused society, with
essentially spectator spectacles (mass sports, TV) providing an
opiate for increasingly purposeless masses.... In the
technetronic society, the trend would seem to be towards the
aggregation of the individual support of millions of
uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and
attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest
communication techniques to manipulate emotions and control
reason."<br>
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