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Utopia in the Factory
- Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics
Engelsk
Bogcover for Utopia in the Factory af Rhiannon Firth, John Preston, 9783031871313
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
193
ISBN-13:
9783031871313
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
3031871316
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
21,0 x 14,8
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2025
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Utopia in the Factory

- Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing enables the seamless production of goods (and services) and ‘lights out’ factories where machines and robots effortlessly produce for our future needs and wants are powerful drivers of a capitalist, free market cybertopia. For some radicals, technology and automation produce the conditions for a Fully Automated Luxury Communism, drawing on an interpretation of Marx, where human work would be replaced by a life of leisure and abundance for all.  For others, an earlier discourse – cybernetics - and the use of AI and social media in communication and co-ordination enable forms of radical organization through ‘anarchist cybernetics’.

?This book questions that technological optimism – particularly cybernetics, automation and AI – through a critique of these technologies and organizational forms. Cybernetics and corresponding technologies and forms (particularly Industry 4.0) can never capture human forms of creativity and working practices.  Furthermore, there are similar problems with the ‘cybernetic paradigm’ as a radical form of organization or social movement in terms of human autonomy, creativity, desire and social prefiguration. As counterpoint the book shows, through empirical evidence and drawing on interviews with workers or activists in a variety of organizational forms, that tacit knowledge and autonomous and spontaneous human projects (what the authors define as ‘hobbying’) are critical in the physical act of making and co-operating.  

 

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
193
ISBN-13:
9783031871313
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
3031871316
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
21,0 x 14,8
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2025
Forfatter(e):
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