Jathan Sadowski

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need!

With sharp insight and a grounded approach, Sadowski helps us rethink the digital technologies shaping our lives and urges us to ask: smart for whom, and at what cost? I’m proud to have translated Too Smart into Persian — now freely available here: senoorbook.ir/uploads/editor…

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with @Lizzie_OShea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink! • August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall, Melbourne

The @AINowInstitute's landscape reports are always an immediate must-read for me—and the latest is no exception. It was great chatting with Sarah and Amba about the People's AI Action Plan

The Israelis are holding trucks full of food outside while a whole population starves. And they're doing it thanks to the unified support of every element in mainstream American politics.

wrote about silicon valley's plot against everything

I was pleasantly surprised to be tagged in this is really thoughtful and generous review of my new book on LinkedIn. If it weren't my book, I'd be rushing out to grab a copy after reading this recommendation!

Here's a really nice article published by my faculty @MonashInfotech about my new ARC Future Fellowship: monash.edu/it/news/2025/m…

BREAKING: xAI announces that the Department of Defense will begin using Grok. The department has awarded a contract to Musk's company that has a $200 million ceiling.

Many thanks to @jathansadowski for writing such a powerful and timely book. Too Smart blends theoretical depth, methodological clarity, and vivid examples to show how “smart” tech is not neutral—but built for data extraction, control, and systemic domination.

My book being featured so casually in this funny TikTok series is gonna be massive for my Brooklyn cred instagram.com/reel/DL-Tftbsg… h/t @_alialkhatib

"The original Luddite movement was a labor movement, not a movement of people who were afraid of technology as the term is used today." — @jathansadowski on luddites, our role as workers and tenants under technological capitalism, and more bayareacurrent.com/we-should-all-…

This was a such a great, wide-ranging interview about my work, new book, and the politics of technology. We should all be Luddites! We need Luddism now more than ever!

I had a blast chatting with @alicetiara about a real bugbear topic of mine. Thanks to AI, scams are now even more automated, ubiquitous, and dynamic than ever before. When we talk about the AI economy, fraud of all kinds is a huge load-bearing part of that.