Automation is a myth:

I. The myth of automated autonomy. The fantasy of full automation -- Spotty automation and less-than-human workers -- II. The myth of automation everywhere. Technology in context, technology as culture -- Automation on the ground -- III. The myth of automating everyone. Automation's racialized...

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1. Verfasser: Munn, Luke 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:I. The myth of automated autonomy. The fantasy of full automation -- Spotty automation and less-than-human workers -- II. The myth of automation everywhere. Technology in context, technology as culture -- Automation on the ground -- III. The myth of automating everyone. Automation's racialized fallout -- Automation's gendered inequality -- Conclusion : automation is not our future
"For some automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy claiming that machines will soon take over production and supplant the human. But far from being self-acting, technical solutions are piecemeal; their support and maintenance reveals the immense human labor behind "autonomous" processes. There is the myth of universal automation with technologies framed as a desituated force sweeping across the globe and remaking society. But this fiction ignores the social, cultural, and geographical forces that shape technologies at a local level. And, there is the myth of automating everyone , the generic figure of "the human" at the heart of automation claims. But labor is socially stratified and so automation's fallout will be highly uneven, falling heavier on some (immigrants, people of color, women) than others. Munn moves from machine minders in China to warehouse pickers in the United States to explore the messy ways that new technologies do (and don't) reconfigure labor. Combining this rich array of human stories with insights from media, race, and cultural studies, Munn points to a more nuanced, localized, and racialized understanding of the "future of work.""
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:173 Seiten
ISBN:9781503631113
9781503631427

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