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

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

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

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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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