Fully Automated Luxury Craft

On this week’s episode, Sophie takes Emmeline and Alice through the intersection of craft, technology and religion. From the importance of girls making crochet knits for their friends, to community art pieces, to robots tending zen gardens, to media materialism, to nosy busybodies investigating craft communes, this episode asks the big question - not just if a machine can do it, but do we want it to?

With special thanks to Dr Ben Higgins at LMH for assisting in providing the primary reading.

See Out-of-Print live at the Roundhouse in January:

https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/out-of-print-live/

Key Texts:

Assorted textual products of the Little Gidding Group
Little Clippings, Adam Smyth
Liturgy at Little Gidding, Regina L Walton
Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani
Programming Patterns: the Story of the Jacquard Loom, The Science + Industry Museum
Say bye to doomscrolling, experts say these grandma hobbies and crafts are trending, NBCDFW

Further Reading:

Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, Whitney Trettein
Work by @dazychains on TikTok