Machines Against Measures

Irene Sotiropoulou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3958-8 (ISBN)

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Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces? Can we avoid measuring in our work? Or are we trapped in a metrification dystopia? Can we create workspaces that can produce what we prefer in order to use our human effort in ways that support nature and our communities? And if yes, what technologies could we use?

Here, monetary-theorist Irene Sotiropoulou explores and critiques the information and communication means that were created for capitalist profit-making, showing how we can subvert these and use them for our own non-capitalist purposes. Machines Against Measures shows that in times of capitalist restructuring and multiple social reproduction crises, there open up new possibilities to experiment with quantity, measuring, machines and digital technologies, creating new ways of production and transaction. Within these, are ways of sharing and producing that defy many principles of capitalist relations. Using everyday examples from grassroots activity, this book offers new insights into how to be inventive with what we have at hand and be able to reflect on what technologies we truly need, revealing a grounded and practical vision of technology and work, based on re-defining why and how we measure what we do.

Irene Sotiropoulou is Senior Lecturer in the Business School at Edge Hill University, UK, where she is specializes in ecological, feminist, solidarity and non-capitalist economics.

Part I: the non-mainstream modes of transaction and production and the quantity question
1. Introduction: the non-mainstream modes of transaction & production, or when what works in practice struggles to work in theory
2. Theoretical background: Capitalist patriarchy, quantification, historical materialism in the field and the “alternatives” to capitalism
3. Theory again: Is measuring a form of violence?
4. Approaches, research methodologies the quantitative methods problem

Part II: The practices of quantifying otherwise
5. Quantities and measures in the non-mainstream field
6. The question of time
7. The question of value
8. ICTs in the non-mainstream field
9. Machines otherwise?

Part III: Machines, measures and (social) reproduction
10. Machines, measures, and the neoliberal version of capitalist patriarchy
11. Machines and measures in service of (social) reproduction
12. Capitalist patriarchal reprise: measures and machines as contested means of (re)production
13. Conclusion: “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House” and the options we have
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Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Autonomy and Automation
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7556-3958-8 / 0755639588
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3958-8 / 9780755639588
Zustand	Neuware