Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

Oct 20, 2025: Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the techno-Luddites

Amanda Hanna-McLeer discusses making a documentary about the growing ranks of young people who are giving up smartphones and other surveillance-addiction devices in favor of real life: social interaction, books, and general tech resistance.

Show Notes

Amanda was born, raised, and educated in Brooklyn. She went to, and later taught at, Edward R. Murrow High School, the birthplace of the Luddite Club. She is a writer, international director, animator and educator. She has worked on the FX show The Americans, Comedy Central’s Broad City and HBO Max’s Search Party. Her favorite book is How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (guest on the June 10, 2019 Techtonic).

• Luddite Club documentary site, with the trailer

• Fundraiser for the Luddite Club documentary (tax-deductible)
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Oct 20, 2025