Reclaiming the Luddite Moment: Turning Off to Reclaim Our Time
This piece reframes the Luddite label as a political critique of how Big Tech harvests our attention, highlighting New York’s Summer of Ludd and offline groups as evidence that resisting the attention economy is a collective, non-anti-technology action. It argues the problem is systemic and calls for expanded offline communities, stronger AI/data-center regulation, and efforts to reclaim time, money, and human connection from profit-driven platforms.