Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-51072-2 (ISBN)
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As technology advances, how do we decide what activities should be automated? Is the end of work through automation actually desirable? If a good life is the life of activity employing our rational, imaginative, and creative powers, what does it mean to say that future societies will be post-work societies? Rather than simply embracing the possibilities of automation to eliminate work, the essays in this collection consider that meaningful work is integral to the good life. Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism puts forward a coherent framework at the intersection of Aristotelian and Marxist accounts of technology and automation, evaluating the process of technological development from the point of view of dominant power relations, and judging concrete embodiments of technology and automation in the light of human flourishing.
The volume contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, specializing in the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory. Contributions cover topics including algorithmic management, the concept of good work, the resonances between Marx and Aristotle on the question of technology, technoutopians’ fundamentally alienated understanding of artificial intelligence, Marx’s utopianism, and the nature of technology. This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will appeal to those in philosophy, politics, literary and cultural studies interested in new technologies both from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy.
Andrius Bielskis is Director of the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania, and Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. On Sheep and Self-Moving Tools: The Material Conditions for Human Flourishing, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
2. Techne in the Conflicts of Modernity: A MacIntyrean Approach to Technology, Kelvin Knight and Joe Simpson (London Metropolitan University, UK)
3. Algorithmic Management: The Corrupting Power of Technology, Pablo Garcia Ruiz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
4. “Mild Preparations”: Work, Practices, and the Internal Good of Recognition, Matthew Sinnicks, Craig Reeves and Efuntomi Wosu (University of Southampton, UK)
5. A Note on Marx, Alienation and Technology, Ruth Porter Groff (Saint Louis University, USA)
6. Artificial Intelligence, Alienation, and the Existential Conditions of Human Flourishing, Jeff Noonan (University of Windsor, Canada)
7. Marxism and the Idea of a Fully Automated Machine Society: Science Fiction Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare? Anthony Burns (University of Nottingham, UK)
8. Automation and the Good Life: Technological Enslavement, Technological Liberation, or Technological Transformation? Egidijus Mardosas (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-51072-6 / 1350510726 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-51072-2 / 9781350510722 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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