
(De)Automating the Future
Marxist Perspectives on Capitalism and Technology
Haymarket Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 7. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
979-8-88890-545-6 (ISBN)
Description
(De)Automating the Future presents a wide-ranging investigation into automation's ambivalences from an interdisciplinary Marxist perspective.
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. The book's contributors 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.
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. The book's contributors 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88890-545-6 (9798888905456)
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