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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... sense given to this term by Paolo Vignola).15. 3. What. is. hidden. in. France. Ten. Years. From. Now? Anderson's storytelling belongs to a new ideology the goal of which is to hide (from itself) the fact that with total automatization a ...
... sense that Ars Industrialis and the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI) give to this term within the perspective of general organology.32 There is now a general awareness of this pharmacological toxicity, in the sense that ...
... sense economizing – epoch of the Neganthropocene. What this means in practical terms is that in the Neganthropocene, and on the economic plane, the accumulation of value must exclusively involve those investments that we shall call ...
... sense the experience of artifice: to fetishize the one we love is essential.19 When we cease to love someone we had formerly loved, the artificiality of the amorous situation falls back brutally into everyday ordinariness. Desire, as ...
... sense – that is, outside any experience. We will see later that, in a dialogue with Serge Daney, Deleuze envisaged that the epoch of control societies would give birth to an 'art of control' – which would be the quasicausality forming ...