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Adrian Daub: What Tech Calls Thinking (2020, FSG Originals)

Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form …

I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with Daub's theory that because the platform supersedes the content in value and merit to companies, workers who don't directly work on the product, like kitchen staff and book scanners, are ignored as "tech workers."

I feel like this under-weights class bias and the gap between jobs viewed "skilled" and "unskilled" labor.

Plus, it seems like this paradigm would place advertising and marketing staff outside the category viewed as tech workers, since they work on content for the platform or otherwise not directly on the platform, which isn't consistent with my experience