Automatic Society, Volume 1: The Future of WorkJohn Wiley & Sons, 17. jan. 2017 - 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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... Chris Anderson 28. The computational becoming of language as the standardization of enormity 29. End of theory or new age of theories? 30. Technology, science, politics and disautomatization 31. The 'Robot Apocalypse' and the true ...
... Chris Anderson showed that the services provided by this company – which are based on what Frédéric Kaplan has called linguistic capitalism2– operate without any reference whatsoever to a theory of language.3 Continuing with a form of ...
... Chris Anderson, 'The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete', Wired (23 June 2008), available at: http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/1607/pb_theory. 4 This being what is referred to with ...
... Chris Anderson's The End of Theory', Edge: The Reality Club (30 June 2008), available at: http://edge.org/discourse/the_end_of_theory.html#kelly. 9 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York ...
... Chris Anderson reaches in 'The End of Theory',35 and it is a proposition we will examine in greater detail in the following chapter. 15. Ill-being. and. the. goddess. of. intermittence. Founded on the self-production of digital traces, and ...