J Jesse Ramirez

Against Automation Mythologies

Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots

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Produktbeschreibung

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".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367520144
• ISBN-10: 0367520141
• Artikelnr.: 59866207

Autorenporträt

J. Jesse Ramírez is Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research and scholarship explores American cultural, literary and intellectual history, digital media and technologies, the cultural history of automation, science fiction and utopia, and ethnic studies. He is particularly interested in narratives regarding the future of technology and work.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Business Science Fiction 1. Future Expectations 2. "Harbingers of
the Robot Age" 3. The Terminator, or, The Automation Fetish Part II.
Original Automation 4. When Farmers Lost Their "Jobs" 5.
Techno-republicanism Part III. Disenchanted Objects 6. The Misadventures of
Baxter and Sawyer 7. Amazon, or, Automated Taylorism 8. Uber is a Science
Fiction 9. The Smart Home: Still More Work for Mother 10. Care Robots 11.
Watson, Champion of White Jeopardy!