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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: J. Jesse Ramirez (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9780367520144ISBN 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  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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!"Reviews"""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 InformationJ. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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