The subject of this paper is this rather peculiar ideological use of the phenomenon of automation asserting the imminent end of labour. In sections 2and 3 we will approach the history and the content of these conceptions. In the following …
recently read David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. If you’re not familiar, David Graeber is the anthropologist who wrote Debt: The First 5000 Years, a seminal book on the history of money and credit. In Bullshit Jobs, Graeber takes aim at pointless …
Jason E. Smith’s book Smart Machines and Service Work can be summed up in one denominator: The theories of post-capitalism and automation turn out to be a hollow form of Californian ideology. In it, the world of digital technologies – …
Automation. On Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work”
Einführung Das Buch von Jason E. Smith Smart Machines and Service Work lässt sich auf einen Nenner bringen: Die Theorien des Postkapitalismus und der Automation entpuppen sich als eine hohle Form der kalifornischen Ideologie. In dieser führe die Welt der …
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (1)
Die mit der Konkurrenz einhergehende Notwendigkeit zur Erhöhung der Produktivität für das einzelne Kapital führt zu einem sinkenden Wert der Waren, womit u. U. die Mehrwertrate (m/v) aufgrund der Verringerung des Werts des variablen Kapitals steigt, gleichzeitig lässt sich in künftigen …
Produktivität und lebendige Arbeit. Zur Zusammenbruchstheorie von Kurz & Co.
The need to increase the productivity of individual capital, which goes hand in hand with competition, leads to a decline in the value of goods, which may increase the rate of added value (m/v) due to the reduction in the …
Not the problem of the transfer of the value or the reproduction of the value share of the fixed capital, which Marazzi described in his essay The Amortization of the Body Machine (Marazzi 2012: 35ff.) (according to which the constant …
These are notes from, and for, a series of discussions on imperialism organised by Redline. (See here for other details) As such, they are not a fully rounded analysis, just some guidance on points in these debates. ————— A key point …