Peter C. Little is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island. His previous books include Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (New York University Press, 2014). He is currently working in partnership with the CHIPS Communities United, a research and advocacy network focused on the labor and environmental rights issues emerging in “host” semiconductor industry communities in the U.S. that are being speedily developed with funding from the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act.
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On the Ecological Tyranny of Tech and Repairing Our ‘Just Tech’ Age
What can be said about globalized tech when our earthly existence is consumed by viral uncertainties, urgent climatic shifts, and perpetual socio-environmental precarity and violence?
January 4, 2024
