S5E9: Finding New Life in Old Tech, With Michael DeLuca

Join us for the final interview of this season, as we talk with Michael DeLuca, publisher of Reckoning, a yearly journal of creative writing on environmental justice, and author of The Jaguar Mask. Michael, impressed by the creative uses of cast off technology in the Global South, would like us to also adopt old tech. He recommends that we follow their lead and adapt old tech to suit our needs, as well as find creative new uses for old tech. We should do better than just be passive consumers of the tech that is sold to us more to the needs and convenience of the companies that produce it than to ours. 

You can follow Michael via his website (mossyskull.com), Mastodon (@[email protected]), and Bluesky and X (@michaeljdeluca). 

Here are some links relevant to our discussion...

...about the hand-cranked laptop

...concerning the (reindeer) who ate all the food on the island

...regarding a degrowth strategy to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere

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