Paul Kingsnorth The Question of the Machine

Socrates in the City

What is it about this time in history that feels so oppressive and detached? How has the machine shaped our worldview? In the latest episode of The Question Of, the furiously gifted writer Paul Kingsnorth, unpacks the mechanisms of the machine by setting out to discover why there's an ever present sense of a metastasizing, encroaching technology that’s entrapping humanity. What he calls “the machine” — the fusion of technology and power — has been growing since the Industrial Revolution.