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
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Albalate, Daniel
Fernandez, Rodrigo
Simbirski, Brian
Bronwyn Frey
Massimo Ciccozzi
Concepts
Technology and politics
Technology and economics
Automation
Human-machine interaction
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
United Kingdom
Afghanistan
Germany
France
Siberia (Russia)
Institutions
Amazon (Firm)
Science for the People (SftP)
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