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

ISBN-13: 9780367520281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 106 str.

J. Jesse Ramirez

Opis

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".

Recenzje

"The achievement of Ramírez's book is to have successfully estranged and demystified hegemonic conceptions of technological 'progress' that still persist in contemporary automation discourses. Simply put, his achievement is to have deautomated hegemonic ways of thinking automation. [...] For anyone interested in critical-utopian thinking, Ramírez's monograph should prove reinvigorating and inspirational: a technoclasm that can blow up automated modes of thinking." -- Miguel Sebastián-Martín, Science Fiction Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Business Science Fiction  1. Future Expectations 2. "Harbingers of the Robot Age" 3. The Terminator, or, The Automation Fetish  Part II. Original Automation  4. When Farmers Lost Their "Jobs" 5. Techno-republicanism  Part III. Disenchanted Objects  6. The Misadventures of Baxter and Sawyer 7. Amazon, or, Automated Taylorism 8. Uber is a Science Fiction 9. The Smart Home: Still More Work for Mother 10. Care Robots 11. Watson, Champion of White Jeopardy!