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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... possible for countries to become structurally indebted, and hence subjected to an unprecedented form of blackmail that indeed resembles a racket (and which we can therefore refer to as mafia capitalism).11 The application of this model ...
... possible by automatization, is what can and must produce negentropic value – and this in turn requires what I have previously referred to as the otium of the people.25 Automation, in the way it has been implemented since Taylorism, has ...
... possible for anyone to ignore this reality: what Valéry, Husserl and Freud posited between the two world wars as a new age of humanity, that is, as its pharmacological consciousness and unconsciousness of the 'world of spirit',34 has ...
... possible, the questions of life and negentropy arising with Darwin and Schrödinger must be redefined from the organological perspective defended here, according to which: (1) natural selection makes way for artificial selection; and (2) ...
... possible futures of incalculable benefits and risks, the experts are surely doing everything possible to ensure the best outcome', then we are wrong. And they invite us to measure what is at stake by considering one question: 'If a ...