Capital for Tech Workers

A free, online course taught by Lachlan Kermode and Erika Bussman. Seminar runs bi-weekly from June 15th - September 9th, 2025.

The aim of this course is twofold:

to understand Marx's 1867–1894 text Capital on its own terms.
to consider the extent to which Marx's critique in this work travels to the contemporary context and conundrum of technology companies and our practice, white- and blue-collar alike, as a part of them: as technologists, users, engineers, custodians, product managers, data cleaners, marketers, and even as founders and investors.

It is designed with those who are actively engaged in the operational edifice of 'big tech' in mind, as a structured and socially involved way to reflect on the ethics and politics of working in the world of software. A tried and tested way to create space for this kind of difficult conceptual labor is to read and re-read Capital, a fact to which a century and a half of political struggle attests.

To participate, simply:

Take a look at our syllabus.
Join our Zulip instance (where asynchronous discussion for the course takes place).
Join us for the first session on June 1! (Further details in Zulip.)

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