Karl Marx on technology and alienation

Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Wendling, Amy E. 1976- (Tekijä)
Resource Type: Kirja
Kieli:English
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • Introduction
  • Karl Marx's concept of alienation
  • Objectification, alienation, and estrangement : on Marx's Hegelian inheritance
  • Other origins of "alienation" and "objectification"
  • Marx's account of alienation : from early to late
  • The alienated object of production : commodity fetishism
  • The alienated means of production : machine fetishism
  • Machines and the transformation of work
  • Marx's energeticist turn
  • The first law of thermodynamics : Kraft, Stoff, and the discourse of energetics
  • From arbeit to arbeitskraft : Marx's transformation of work from self-actualization to energy expenditure
  • The second law of thermodynamics : entropy, the heat death of the universe, and revolution
  • Machines in the communist future
  • Technology and the boundaries of nature
  • Material wealth and value : the Grundrisse's "fragment on machines"
  • The strife between technology and capital : the fall in the rate of profit
  • Enjoyment not value : challenging the capitalist logic of exhaustion
  • Man himself as fixed capital : the symbiosis of human and machine in the production of material wealth
  • Class kinship and the redistribution of the means of production
  • Machines in the capitalist reality
  • Between thermodynamics and humanism : approaching Capital
  • Machinery as an historical category of production
  • Machines, trains, and other capitalist monsters
  • Rough, foul-mouthed boys : women's monstrous laboring bodies
  • Wage labor and race
  • Wage labor and sexuality
  • Machinery and revolution
  • Alienation beyond Marx
  • Science and technology in Marx's excerpt notebooks
  • Karl Marx and Charles Babbage : the speed of production in the Economic manuscripts of 1861-1863
  • Machines and temporality : the treadmill effect and free time
  • Technophobia and technophilia
  • Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.