There weren't pdf's available in the website, that's all, I laughed at a book called 'degrowth manifesto' but I have to buy a physical copy and have it shipped to my house internationally? It's nonsense
AK Press isn’t the publisher of the book, which is available as an ebook from Astra Press. AK does sell DRM-free ebooks of all the titles they publish, though.
in some cases it technically does. if we shut down every single AI data center as we should, the industrialists would call that a Luddite primitivist counter-revolution.
I don't necessarily agree that we need to stop printing books but if all the industrial printing presses were erased from existence, we wouldn't lose much. the knowledge of printing wouldn't go away but we'd "regress" to a state where you can't treat books as a commodity anymore. you either pirate the PDF from your comrades or ask one of them to print a copy at your local DIY space.
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laxryn@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 330d
I enjoyed this book, I suggested to my local library, they bought the audio and print books to loan out.
hanrahan@piefed.social · 2 pts · 316d
Tangentially related
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2023/06/25/critical-comments-on-kohei-saitos-view-of-degrowth-communism/
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 331d
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/kohei-saito/pdf-epub-slow-down-the-degrowth-manifesto-download/
degrowth by providing a pdf lol, what an odd publishing house
HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 330d
They are a worker-run co-op that publishes radical books. What exactly do you find odd about that?
hanrahan@piefed.social · 0 pts · 316d
Says it's a free epub (and pdf) downoad , can't download the supposedly free epub. Weird
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 330d
There weren't pdf's available in the website, that's all, I laughed at a book called 'degrowth manifesto' but I have to buy a physical copy and have it shipped to my house internationally? It's nonsense
HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 330d
AK Press isn’t the publisher of the book, which is available as an ebook from Astra Press. AK does sell DRM-free ebooks of all the titles they publish, though.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 329d
degrowth does not equal technological regression
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 329d
in some cases it technically does. if we shut down every single AI data center as we should, the industrialists would call that a Luddite primitivist counter-revolution.
I don't necessarily agree that we need to stop printing books but if all the industrial printing presses were erased from existence, we wouldn't lose much. the knowledge of printing wouldn't go away but we'd "regress" to a state where you can't treat books as a commodity anymore. you either pirate the PDF from your comrades or ask one of them to print a copy at your local DIY space.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 329d
I think we're just conceptualizing "technological regression" differently.