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082 0 4 _a338/.064
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100 1 _aRamírez, J. Jesse,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAgainst automation mythologies :
_bbusiness science fiction and the ruse of the robots /
_cJ. Jesse Ramírez.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bRoutledge,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 106 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
520 _aInspired 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". 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, Marxian cultural theory, cultural studies, science fiction studies, and the cultural history of technology.
588 _aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650 0 _aAutomation
_xSocial aspects.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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856 4 0 _3Taylor & Francis
_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003056089
856 4 2 _3OCLC metadata license agreement
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