Against Platforms Discworld Let's meet them

Let's meet them

The ownership of Black imagery and death is considered in the story of Tamara Lanier’s fight to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard

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Often the cause of death is either ‘got too greedy’ or ‘Napoleon turned up’

Against Platforms Discworld Let's meet themAt the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential. A quarter of a century on, this form of utopianism seems like a cruel mirage. Our lives are more fragmented and pressure filled as ever, as we race to keep up with technologies that