About this episode
Bill Weinberg discusses the dangers of cellular technology and its impact on human freedom.
As the architecture of total surveillance falls inexorably into place, cellular technology comes to colonize more and more of daily human existence. Accepted in the banal interest of “convenience,” this trajectory ultimately ends in not only the extinction of human freedom, but the abolition of humanity itself—an idea openly embraced by the fascist tech bros as “transhumanism,” and warned of by CS Lewis in his eerily prescient 1943 work The Abolition of Man. In Episode 317 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg urges a revolution of everyday life, in which we start saying no to the relentless encroachment of cellular and digital technology. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex Production by Chris Rywalt We ask listeners to donate just $1 per weekly podcast via Patreon -- or $2 for our new special offer! We now have 61 subscribers. If you appreciate our work, please become Number 62!
People in this episode
Host: Bill Weinberg
Topics covered
- cellular technology
- surveillance
- human freedom
- transhumanism
- digital technology
Keywords
- total surveillance
- revolution
- everyday life
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Abolition of Man, CounterVortex
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