(De)Automating the Future: Marxist Perspectives on Capitalism and Technology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004703919)

Much has been written about the prospects of automation in recent years. While many have raised concerns over the threat of technological mass unemployment, others have anticipated a fully automated communist utopia which will provide material abundance to everyone. (De)Automating the Future gathers chapters that critically investigate automation's ambivalences from inter-disciplinary Marxist perspectives. The contributions raise questions about automation's affordances for postcapitalism, its transformation of manual and mental labour, and its role in the intensification of class antagonisms and exploitation.

Author: Johannes Fehrle
ISBN-10: 9004703918
ISBN-13: 9789004703919
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2024
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover