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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... question of the passage from the Anthropocene, which at the end of the eighteenth century established the conditions of generalized proletarianization (something that Adam Smith himself already understood), to the exit from this period ...
... question of practical organology, that is, of inventive productions. We argue that this question and these productions necessarily involve (and we will show why) a complete reinvention of the world wide web – the Anthropocene having ...
... question of value, if it is true that the entropy/negentropy relation is the vital question par excellence. It is according to such perspectives that we must think, organologically and pharmacologically, both what we are referring to as ...
... question of the cosmos itself becomes the question of combustion in thermodynamics and in astrophysics – and, via the steam engine, in relation to that eminent pharmakon that is domestic fire as the artifice par excellence brought to ...
... question of neganthropology, that is, as the question of a new epoch of knowledge embodying the task of entering into the Neganthropocene. This is what leads him to abandon the political dimension implied in any anthropology. The ...
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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 |