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Against Automation Mythologies - Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,702
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Against Automation Mythologies - Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots (Hardcover): J. Jesse Ramirez

Against Automation Mythologies - Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots (Hardcover)

J. Jesse Ramirez

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2020
First published: 2021
Authors: J. Jesse Ramirez
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-52014-4
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation
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LSN: 0-367-52014-1
Barcode: 9780367520144

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