Preston, John (2018) Automatic subjects: Digital manufacturing, Value and Artificial Intelligence. In: International Conference on Critical Education VIII, 2018-07-25 - 2018-07-28, London.
Preston, John (2018) Automatic subjects: Digital manufacturing, Value and Artificial Intelligence. In: International Conference on Critical Education VIII, 2018-07-25 - 2018-07-28, London.
Preston, John (2018) Automatic subjects: Digital manufacturing, Value and Artificial Intelligence. In: International Conference on Critical Education VIII, 2018-07-25 - 2018-07-28, London.
Abstract
This paper makes three contentions. Firstly, that digital manufacturing and ‘Industry 4.0’ do not represent an ontological break with capitalism, but rather accelerate capitalist forms of intensification, exploitation and transcendence of limits. Secondly, that value in the Marxist sense is a social substance, rather than a technological or physiological one. Thirdly, that the existential threat arising from AI is little different from the automatic expansion of value in capitalism but that AI is not the materialisation of value into the realm of the physical.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Published proceedings: _not provided_ |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2018 08:53 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2022 19:25 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/22764 |