Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia

Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library DystopiaPub date: 2023-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn episode six of Faculty Spotlight, Mark and Lauren sit down with R.H. Lossin, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Warren Center of Studies in American History and a leading scholar of the theory and practice of sabotage. The three discuss: what led R.H. to the study of sabotage; why sabotage is more ordinary than you think; R.H.'s beef with the "universal library"—i.e., the total digitization of books; how readers have become producers; why Luddites have a bad rap; the meaning of "capitalist sabotage"; and the violent origins of all private property—among other scintillating subjects.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.