Theses on the Techlash
30th October 2022
Once a term gets widely adopted by the press, and earns itself a space in dictionaries, it becomes challenging to argue that the thing the term stands for does not really exist.
A good example is ‘capitalism’, a term with a precise meaning (by Marx) that most people use as if it were a synonym for ‘industrialism’.
At least this is the case with the “techlash.” A term which is everywhere, even as the thing that it names can be a bit trickier to pin down.