Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-18
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 107
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Andrew Sage discussed Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich, Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford, When Technology Wounds by Chellis Glendinning, and Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander. Also mentioned: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi and others and History of Zionism by Nahum Sokolow.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi is a comprehensive historical account examining the century-long conflict and displacement of Palestinians through the lens of settler colonialism.
Discussed“Sim is referencing in this audio Rasheed Khaled's book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine, a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917 to 2017.”
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History of Zionism
Discussed“In 1919, he wrote the introduction to Nahim Sokulo's history of Zionism. In this introduction, Balffor wrote that the Zionist movement would quote mitigate the agelong miseries created for Western civilization”
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Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich is a 1973 philosophical work critiquing modern industrial society and advocating for user-friendly tools that empower communities rather than specialized elites.
Discussed“In fact, one of the foundational uh concepts in the modern movement of degrowth is the concept of conviviiality which was redefined and introduced in the context of our tools in Illich's book tools for conviviiality.”
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Myth of the Machine
Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford is a comprehensive two-volume work written in the 1960s that serves as a profound critique of technology and its broader societal implications.
Discussed“Philosopher Lewis Mumford who had written the myth of the machine pentagon of power reminds us that technology encompasses more than just physical objects. It also includes the techniques of operation and the social organizations that make a particular technology work.”
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When Technology Wounds
Discussed“In the book When technology wounds by psychologist Chalis Glendining by psychologist Chelis Glendining she studied technology survivors people who had suffered injury or illness in recent years after being exposed to various toxic technologies in their homes and workplaces whether nuclear radiation pesticides asbestos birth control devices or drugs”
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander is a classic media critique that argues television is inherently harmful to human psychology, culture, and democratic discourse regardless of the content it broadcasts.
Discussed“quote a social critic Jerry Mandanda writes in four arguments to the elimination of television a book I read some years ago by the way that I mean to revisit but concerning the quote technologies are not neutral tools that can be used for good or evil depending on who uses them.”
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