william morris
designer, poet, and founder of the arts and crafts movement. argued that the conditions of making matter as much as the thing made, and that there is no division between the aesthetic and the useful.
morris argued that you can read the conditions of production in the thing produced. my letterpress practice lives in this lineage directly: the physical act of setting type, inking the block, and pulling the impression is not peripheral to my digital work, it informs it.
anti-industrialism as a practical stance: make things by hand, make them well, and make them for the person who will use them. this is {s}lofi / {s}low-tech applied to the nineteenth century.