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Articles by Rob Lucas
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The Critical Net Critic
in NLR 77, September-October 2012, pp. 45-69
Subjects: Science , Social Theory
Advances in information technology have generated both delirious boosterism and gloomy prognoses of computer-assisted decline. Rob Lucas engages with the sceptical current exemplified by Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows, tracing its conceptual underpinnings and identifying its lacunae—political, economic, historical.
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Dreaming in Code
in NLR 62, March-April 2010, pp. 125-132
Subjects: Work under Modern Capitalism
The working life of a web developer, between the contending pressures of capital’s needs and the programmer’s craft ethic. What forms of solidarity are available within the horizons of ‘immaterial labour’?
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Also available in Spanish and Polish