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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... shocks and the neganthropic role of knowledge 8. Smartification 9. The goal of the present work Notes 1: The Industry of Traces and Automatized Artificial Crowds 10. The automatization of existences 11. The proletarianization of ...
... Shock, States of Fact, States of Law 23. From the common origin of law and science to the ruin of theory 24. Phenomenotechnics, automatism and catastrophe 25. The duty of every non-inhuman being 26. The common obsolescence of the ...
... shock in public opinion now'. Otherwise, distrust of the elites will increase, with serious political consequences.22. 4. Entropy. and. negentropy. in. the. Anthropocene. To anticipate, describe, alert, but also to propose: such are the ...
... shock begins by destroying established circuits of transindividuation, 47 themselves emerging from a prior shock, and then gives rise to the generation of new circuits of transindividuation, which constitute new forms of knowledge ...
... shocks that constitute epochs of knowledge. The socialization of knowledge increases the complexity of societies, societies that individuate and as such participate in what Whitehead called the concrescence of the cosmos, itself ...