Devs and the Culture of Tech - Part 5
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Hello all. People were very kind when I originally posted the start of this series. I’ve refrained from spamming you with every part but I thought I’d post to say the very final installment is done.

I got a bit weird with it this time as I felt like I had an infinite amount to say, all of which only barely got to the underlying point i was trying to make. So much that I wrote I also cut, it’s ridiculous.

Anyway now the series is done I’m going to move on to smaller discrete pieces as I work on my book about Tech Culture’s propensity to far-right politics. I’ll be dropping interesting stuff I find, examples of Right Libertarians saying ridiculous things, so follow along if that’s your jam.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think one of my favourite parts was this footnote in part 4:

    "Though the idea that politics is ingrained into material design choices is a growing consensus within recent Science and Technology studies work. I once wrote a piece on the role of software design in shaping people’s interpretation of texts - because that’s how I get wild on Friday nights.

    (N.b. link preserved from original)

    This is obviously a joke, but the truth in the joke is that you’re a huge nerd, and it makes me happy to see people like you on the internet. There was a while where I perceived the tech-people you critique as “my people”, but ultimately the euphoria of finding community dissolved into isolation and dread, as I grew to understand the impact of the cultish culture of tech.