Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism
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Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

AI, Automation and Alienation

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eBook - ePub

Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

AI, Automation and Alienation

About this book

With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions. As technology advances, how do we decide what activities should be automated? Is the end of work through automation actually desirable? If a good life is the life of activity employing our rational, imaginative, and creative powers, what does it mean to say that future societies will be post-work societies? Rather than simply embracing the possibilities of automation to eliminate work, this collection considers that meaningful work is integral to the good life. Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, reflecting on the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory. Contributions cover topics such as algorithmic management, the feared 'superintelligence' of machines, the concept of good work, and the alienating consequences of technology for workers. This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will be of interest to anyone considering new technologies from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781350510739
Edition
0
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Why We Need Aristotle and Marx Together Andrius Bielskis
  9. 1 On Sheep and Self-Moving Tools: The Material Conditions for Human Flourishing Andrius Bielskis
  10. 2 Technē in the Conflicts of Modernity: A MacIntyrean Approach to Technology Kelvin Knight and Joe Simpson
  11. 3 Algorithmic Management: The Corrupting Power of Technology Pablo GarcĆ­a Ruiz
  12. 4 ā€˜Mild Preparationsā€™: Work, Practices and the Internal Good of Recognition Matthew Sinnicks, Efuntomi Wosu and Craig Reeves
  13. 5 A Note on Marx, Alienation and Technology Ruth Porter Groff
  14. 6 Artificial Intelligence, Alienation and the Existential Conditions of Human Flourishing Jeff Noonan
  15. 7 Marxism and the Idea of a Fully Automated Machine Society: Science Fiction Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare? Tony Burns
  16. 8 Automation and the Good Life: Technological Enslavement, Technological Liberation or Technology Transformed? Egidijus Mardosas
  17. Index
  18. Imprint