Against Automation Mythologies: Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots
Author:   J. Jesse Ramirez (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367520144


Pages:   106
Publication Date:   17 July 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   J. Jesse Ramirez (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9780367520144


ISBN 10:   0367520141
Pages:   106
Publication Date:   17 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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!"

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"""The achievement of Ramírez’s book is to have successfully estranged and demystified hegemonic conceptions of technological 'progress' that still persist in contemporary automation discourses. Simply put, his achievement is to have deautomated hegemonic ways of thinking automation. [...] For anyone interested in critical-utopian thinking, Ramírez’s monograph should prove reinvigorating and inspirational: a technoclasm that can blow up automated modes of thinking."" -- Miguel Sebastián-Martín, Science Fiction Studies"


The achievement of Ramirez's book is to have successfully estranged and demystified hegemonic conceptions of technological 'progress' that still persist in contemporary automation discourses. Simply put, his achievement is to have deautomated hegemonic ways of thinking automation. [...] For anyone interested in critical-utopian thinking, Ramirez's monograph should prove reinvigorating and inspirational: a technoclasm that can blow up automated modes of thinking. -- Miguel Sebastian-Martin, Science Fiction Studies


Author Information

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.

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