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Radical Software
LCST 2234, Spring 2026 (CRN 16616)
Rory Solomon
65 West 11th St, Room: 259
News & Announcements
Additional announcements will go here, as well as occasional relevant news items. If you come across events, news, or other announcements you'd like to share with the class related to radical software and our course, please share with me and I'll post them here.
Tuesday, March 3
— Luddites in the "news" (1995)For whatever reason, lots of Luddite-related information & events seem to be coming across my various feeds lately, right as we plan to talk abot this subject. Could be "the algorithm" perhaps, or maybe a general interest in the air.
In any case, here is a comedic piece from McSweeney's Internet Tendency, a humor website published by McSweeney's, an independent publisher based in San Franciso:
Kate Tyndall, "Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?"
The article is a satirical take on machines in the workplace, written from the perspective of someone in the original Luddite milieu, as an allegory for how workers appear to be treating AI today.
Enjoy!