The laptop or the pickaxe

I will be posting short passages from Infrastructural Brutalism in this space, from time to time. Here’s the conclusion to an extended discussion of the 3D film Bwana Devil (1952) and the famous 1983 cover of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle….

“Given a choice of trying to meme one’s way out of late-stage capitalism or organizing to disrupt extractive industries and sabotage the pipelines, roads, and railways, the facile and popular response tends to involve a laptop not a pickaxe.”