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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... theory or new age of theories? 30. Technology, science, politics and disautomatization 31. The 'Robot Apocalypse' and the true meaning of the revelations of Edward Snowden 32. What is to be done? 33. Supplementary invention Notes 3: The ...
... theory of language.3 Continuing with a form of reasoning similar to that which he applies to the epidemiology of Google, Anderson comes to the conclusion that what is referred to today as 'big data',4 consisting of gigabytes of data ...
... theory of entropy succeeds in redefining the question of value, if it is true that the entropy/negentropy relation is the vital question par excellence. It is according to such perspectives that we must think, organologically and ...
... 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 the expression 'data deluge ...
... 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: Random House, 2007). 10 ...