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Bernard Stiegler - Automatic Society - 9781509506309 - V9781509506309
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Automatic Society

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Description for Automatic Society Hardback. In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring.

In this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more ... Read more

Building substantially on his existing theories and engaging with a wide range of figures - from Deleuze and Foucault to Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan - Automatic Society will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, as well as anyone concerned with the central question of the future of work.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509506309
SKU
V9781509506309
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Ref
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About Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler is the Director of Cultural Development at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Reviews for Automatic Society
"As Stiegler shows in this important work, there is a glaring and dangerous absence of critical thinking about automation and its effects on political and economic life. His argument is profoundly important: we must interrogate the production and maintenance of automatisms in contemporary life in order to prepare the way for what he calls a dis-automatization of society. Stiegler’s vision ... Read more

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