Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Antero Garcia is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and the vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English. His most recent books are Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom (Norton, 2023) and All Through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology (University of Minnesota, 2023).

Antero Garcia

Charles Logan is a doctoral candidate in the Learning Sciences program at Northwestern University.

Charles Logan

T. Philip Nichols is an associate professor of English Education at Baylor University. He is the author of Building the Innovation School: Infrastructures for Equity in Today’s Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2022) and co-editor, with Antero Garcia, of Literacies for the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, Possibilities, (forthcoming from Routledge).

T. Philip Nichols

Inspiration from the Luddites: On Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine”

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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

T. Philip Nichols is an associate professor of English Education at Baylor University. He is the author of Building the Innovation School: Infrastructures for Equity in Today’s Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2022) and co-editor, with Antero Garcia, of Literacies for the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, Possibilities, (forthcoming from Routledge).

T. Philip Nichols

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Inspiration from the Luddites: On Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine”