Perhaps the most insidious aspect of modern, centralized technology, even more than its pervasiveness, is its complete acceptance in almost all quarters as an integral part of the human experience (and among so-called “revolutionaries” as a prerequisite for a change …
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The High Priest of Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 312, Spring 1983
The High Priest of Technology still holds the high cards of death, but throughout the world mass opposition to his plans are taking place. Easter week-end in Europe saw at least half a million people in Scotland, England, the Netherlands …
Feral Technology
by Rich Dana (Ricardo Feral)
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
“Everything not saved will be lost.” —Nintendo quit screen message
Post-Revolution Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
All “modern” technology on the planet today is massive and centralized and demands, by its very nature, centralized political control—authoritarianism is built into those very instruments supposedly designed to free us from the drudgeries of life.
The Refusal of Technology
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 303, October 20, 1980
FE Introduction: Members of the Fifth Estate staff and our friends (as well as some not so friendly) have been debating the role of technology and its function within the larger system of domination almost since the inception of our …
Technology Debate Continues
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 305, March 18, 1981
FE—A Safe Niche? To the Fifth Estate: Over the past couple of years that I have been reading your paper, I have been alternately intrigued, provoked, or irritated by some of the things you folks have written. And that’s as …
Anarchism & The Critique of Technology
by Bob Brubaker
Fifth Estate # 320, Spring, 1985
Much of contemporary anarchist thought is completely reconciled with industrial society and technological social organization. This common anarchist viewpoint is summed up by Daniel Guerin thusly: “[Anarchism] rests upon large-scale modern industry, up-to-date techniques, the modern proletariat, and internationalism on …
FE Readers Debate Technology
by Fifth Estate Collective, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 304, December 31, 1980
The letters on this page are responses to John Zerzan’s “The Refusal of Technology” which appeared in the October 20, 1980 edition [#303] of the Fifth Estate; below are our comments on the question. In the article, Zerzan accuses those …
Technology and Capitalism
by Peter Rachleff
Fifth Estate # 292, June 19, 1978
a review of David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (N.Y.: Knopf, 1977). 384 pages, $12.95.
More debate on Technology
by Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 309, June 19, 1982
Dear Fifth Estate: The cover graphic of the mushroom cloud with the word WAR! in seven centimeter lettering across the front struck me as highly appropriate for the Fifth Estate (See FE #307, Nov. 19, 1981). It would seem to …
Technology: There’s the Rub
by Alice Detroit
Fifth Estate # 353, Summer, 1999
a review of Public Secrets, Ken Knabb, Bureau of Public Secrets, P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley, California 94701, 408 pp., $15 (available from FE Books)
A System of Domination—Technology
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 315, Winter, 1984
In response to a letter from Jeffrey Vega, Tech Examined FE #315, Winter 1984. Is it too much to ask that our critics take the time to read at least some of the voluminous material on the technology question rather …
20th Century Technology Presents Mega Death
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This poster originally appeared in the Daily Barbarian and was reprinted in the Fifth Estate, June 19, 1979
Technology, Kids, and Autonomy
by Icarus Descending
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
In a classroom of five and six-year olds, I witness moments each day that vividly illuminate the tension and conflict within young minds struggling to understand their exposure to culture through mass media.
394, Summer 2015 – Technology
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1984: Worse Than Expected?
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
Somehow, the giant organizations which produce and disseminate all of this junk employ our very fear of technology to further its “unprecedented control” over our lives.
But It Doesn’t Move
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 325, Spring, 1987
a review of And Yet It Moves: The Realization and Suppression of Science & Technology, by Boy Igor, 1986, 120 pp., $5, Zamisdat Press, GPO Box 1255, Gracie Station, NY NY 10028.
Clarification
by George Bradford (David Watson)
Fifth Estate # 330, Winter, 1988-89
Friends: In the FE report of the July ’88 Toronto @ Un-convention [FE #329, Summer, 1988], the description of a workshop that I gave, “Empire and Ecological Destruction,” contained a misleading inaccuracy. Since I was not in town when the …
Transhumanism?
by John Zerzan
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Transhumanism, which rarely rates a mention in the media, suddenly had a brief moment of infamy recently due to the reported interest in it by the late, evil, child sex trafficker, Jeffry Epstein.
FE Staff Member to Speak
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 344, Summer, 1994
The New Jersey Green Journal, published by the Raritan-Brunswick Greens, is a green publication we have particularly enjoyed since they take a strong interest in many of the questions that animate us—technology as a system of domination, the question of …