General Intellect Unit

Hey there folks!

We're giving away two copies of People's Republic of Walmart, by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski.

All of our patrons will automatically be included in the draw, while non-patrons can enter their email address in this form to add themselves to the draw.

Winners will be selected at random on the 31st of March, and will be contacted via Patreon message or email to arrange delivery. To keep this fair, if we don't hear back from an entrant within two weeks, we'll draw another winner for that book.

Why are we doing this? Well, Shane accidentally placed three separate pre-orders for this book over the course of two years, so there's two spare copies floating around.

Check out this post on our Patreon page for more details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25294050

In which we discuss Stafford Beer's 1974 book "Designing Freedom". Beer makes the case for a total overhaul of our institutions and organisational methods, by way of management cybernetics.

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• Designing Freedom on the Internet Archive (free full ebook)

In which we talk to Wendy Liu and Jason Prado about tech, worker organising, and open source.

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• Wendy Liu on Twitter

In which we are joined by Fraser Simons to discuss The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks.

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• The Player of Games, on Wikipedia

In which we continue our discussion of the Xenofeminist Manifesto, with Kira Magrann.

The next book we read will be Designing Freedom, by Stafford Beer. If you want to read along with us before the episode airs, you can get the book free from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/DesigningFreedom

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• Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, on laboriacuboniks.net

In which we are joined by Kira Magrann to discuss the Xenofeminist Manifesto.

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• Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, on laboriacuboniks.net

In which we discuss Shane's experience at the Metaphorum Conference 2018.

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• Metaphorum website

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In which we interview Andrew Pickering, author of The Cybernetic Brain.

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• Borderless Exhibit

In which we conclude our reading of Transforming Technology.

This chapter ties up the theory of the Technical Code, explores Formal and Substantive Bias, and opens up opportunity for radical change of technological society.

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• Andrew Feenberg on Wikipedia

An extra episode, for our one-year anniversary, in which we talk about scheduling issues and plans for the year ahead.

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• General Intellect Unit on iTunes