Automatic Society, Volume 1: The Future of WorkJohn Wiley & Sons, 15. mar. 2018 - 280 sider In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring. In this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more generally. He calls for a decoupling of the concept of ‘labour’ (meaningful, intellectual participation) from ‘employment’ (dehumanizing, banal work), with the ultimate aim of eradicating ‘employment’ altogether. By doing so, new and alternative economic models will arise, where individuals are no longer simply mined for labour, but also actively produce what they consume. Building substantially on his existing theories and engaging with a wide range of figures - from Deleuze and Foucault to Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan - Automatic Society will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, as well as anyone concerned with the central question of the future of work. |
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... called linguistic capitalism2 – operate without any reference whatsoever to a theory of language.3 Continuing with a form of reasoning similar to that which he applies to the epidemiology of Google, Anderson comes to the conclusion that ...
... ' consisted in a secularization and rationalization that irresistibly thwarts it – what might be called the aporia of capitalism.14 We shall see that as contemporary capitalism becomes purely computational, Introduction 3 2. Bottling Paris.
... called 'data economy', this aporia is exacerbated, this contradiction is 'realized', and in this way it succeeds in accomplishing that becoming without future referred to by Nietzsche as nihilism – of which Anderson's blustering ...
... called for a restoration of US hegemony and the deregulation of polluting activities, shows the limits of this appeal, his speech does illustrate the influence [...] that criticism of the consumer society had acquired in the public ...
... called concrescence, and does so as the local technicization of the cosmos. This local technicization is relative, but it leads to conceiving of the cosmos in its totality on the basis of this position and on the basis of this local ...
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States of Shock States of Fact States of Law | 41 |
The Destruction of the Faculty of Dreaming | 65 |
Overtaken The Automatic Generation of Protentions | 93 |
Within the Electronic Leviathan in Fact and in Law | 127 |
On Available Time for the Coming Generation | 157 |
Energies and Potentials in the TwentyFirst Century | 182 |
Above and Beyond the Market | 208 |
Conclusion | 226 |
Notes | 248 |
Index | 322 |
EULA | 343 |