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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... relations and forms – the work of tranquil man. A work that nothingness would be unable to infiltrate and where beautiful names – all names are beautiful – suffice to make us happy. Maurice Blanchot2 These motors must be very different ...
... relation to which new causal and quasi-causal factors can now be identified that have not hitherto been analysed. This is why Bonneuil and Fressoz rightly deplore 'geocratic' approaches that short-circuit political analyses of that ...
... 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 the entropocene and what we are referring to as ...
... relation to that eminent pharmakon that is domestic fire as the artifice par excellence brought to mortals by Prometheus, and watched over by Hestia.43 As a question of physics, the techno-logical conquest of fire44 puts anthropogenesis ...
... relation to itself is the dynamic principle of individuation. We have developed the concept of the 'doubly epokhal redoubling' in order to try to describe how a shock begins by destroying established circuits of transindividuation,47 ...
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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 |