Book ID: CBB160756101

Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots (2020)

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J. Jesse Ramirez (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 116
Language: English

Inspired by Roland Barthes’s practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots". Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automation’s ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question accepted and prolific automation mythologies. Jesse Ramirez offers a study of automation that recognizes automation as a technosocial project, that uses the tools of cultural studies and history to investigate the narratives and ideologies that often implicitly frame the automation debate, and that concretely and soberly assesses the technologies that have made the headlines. The case studies featured include some of the most widely cited and celebrated automatic technologies, such as the Baxter industrial robot, the self-driving car, and the Watson AI system. An ideal resource for anyone interested in or studying emerging technology and society, automation, Marxist cultural theory, cultural studies, science fiction studies, and the cultural history of technology.

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Authors & Contributors
Hessler, Martina
Hirsh, Richard F.
Rubin, Eli
Van Vleck, Jenifer Leigh
Reed Stevens
Sarah Dillon
Journals
Blätter für Technikgeschichte
History and Technology
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Journal of the History of Ideas
Science as Culture
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
MIT Press
The MIT Press
Duke University Press
Lexington Books
Oxford University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Technology and politics
Automation
Human-machine interaction
Technology and economics
Artificial intelligence
Technology and society
People
Arendt, Hannah
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
East Germany
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Siberia (Russia)
Institutions
Amazon (Firm)
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