michael-eby

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Michael Eby

Michael Eby is a writer and researcher on contemporary art and digital culture. He lives in New York.

Head and Hand

Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour’, recently republished, is an influential account of the way in which human beings built a society where one class plans, and another toils.

Socialism’s DIY Computer

The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia, inspiring thousands of people to build versions in their own homes. The idea behind them was simple – to make technology available to everyone.