Automatic Society, Volume 1: The Future of Work

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In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called 'data economy', is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring. In this first volume of a new series, the leading cultural theorist Bernard Stiegler advocates a radical solution to the crisis posed by automation and consumer capitalism more generally. He calls for a decoupling of the concept of 'labour' (meaningful, intellectual participation) from 'employment' (dehumanizing, banal work), with the ultimate aim of eradicating 'employment' altogether. By doing so, new and alternative economic models will arise, where individuals are no longer simply mined for labour, but also actively produce what they consume. Building substantially on his existing theories and engaging with a wide range of figures - from Deleuze and Foucault to Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan - Automatic Society will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, as well as anyone concerned with the central question of the future of work. Cover Title page Copyright page Contents Dedication Introduction: Functional Stupidity, Entropy and Negentropy in the Anthropocene 1. What occurred between 23 June and 23 October 2008 2. Bottling Paris 3. What is hidden in France Ten Years From Now? 4. Entropy and negentropy in the Anthropocene 5. The completion of nihilism and the entry into the Neganthropocene 6. The question of fire and the advent of thermodynamics 7. The Anthropocene as a succession of technological shocks and the neganthropic role of knowledge 8. Smartification 9. The goal of the present work 1: The Industry of Traces and Automatized Artificial Crowds 10. The automatization of existences 11. The proletarianization of sensibility 12. The original artificiality of traces in noetic life 13. The industry of traces 14. Automatic decision-making, stupor, sideration – ‘net blues’ 15. Ill-being and the goddess of intermittence 16. From control societies to full automatization (from Angela Merkel to the ‘bum on the corner’) 17. Crisis, metamorphosis, stupefaction 18. Pharmacology of ‘big data’ 19. Ultra-liberalism as the dis-integration of individuals into ‘dividuals’ 20. That by which the world holds 21. The automated capture of behavioural expressions as the automated formation of new kinds of ‘conventional crowds’ 22. Pharmacology of associated milieus 2: States of Shock, States of Fact, States of Law 23. From the common origin of law and science to the ruin of theory 24. Phenomenotechnics, automatism and catastrophe 25. The duty of every non-inhuman being19 26. The common obsolescence of the scientist and the soldier in the age of total automatization 27. The uselessness of knowledge and the obsolescence of taxonomy, hypotheses and experiments: the power of Google according to Chris Anderson 28. The computational becoming of language as the standardization of enormity 29. End of theory or new age of theories? 30. Technology, science, politics and dis-automatization 31. The ‘Robot Apocalypse’ and the true meaning of the revelations of Edward Snowden 32. What is to be done? 33. Supplementary invention 3: The Destruction of the Faculty of Dreaming 34. Full synchronization through ‘online correlates’ 35. Accelerated transformations of calendarity by innovation in the service of 24/7 capitalism and the liquidation of intermittence 36. Intermittences of the improbable 37. Dream, fact and law 38. Confronting the power of totalization – the right and duty to dis-automatize by dreaming 39. The organological bases of sleep, dream and intermittence 40. The interpretation of dreams and organology 41. Against the ideological naturalization of technics and noesis 42. Pharmacology of functional integration 43. Transitions and phase shifts 44. Transition, dreaming and transindividuation – towards the Neganthropocene 45. Expression of tendencies and digital madness 46. Technical facts and the end of work 47. The quasi-causality of capital itself 4: Overtaken: The Automatic Generation of Protentions 48. Overproduction, anomie and neganthropy 49. The improbable, technics and time 50. The truth of the digital and its denial 51. Retentions, promises, protentions 52. Performativity in light-time as the flattening of the world 53. Algorithmic governance and digital territories 54. Algorithmic governmentality as anormative automatic transindividuation 55. Automatic immanence and the obsolescence of categories 56. Automatic government 57. The imperturbable power of algorithmic governmentality and the improbability of the default that is necessary in the incessant 58. Immanence and perturbation – eliminating failure 59. The epoch of the absence of epoch and the ill-educated boors that we are 60. (Dys)functional incapacitation and the legal vacuum 5: Within the Electronic Leviathan in Fact and in Law 61. Disparation and signification 62. Orders and disorders of magnitude 63. Information and knowledge 64. Everybody is Nobody: flatness and verticality in the electronic Leviathan 65. The macropolitics of relief 66. De-proletarianization as dis-automatization 67. Hermeneutics of the Leviathan 68. Organology of jurisprudence 69. Collective individuations, social systems and hermeneutic jurisprudence 70. From the semantic web to the hermeneutic web 71. Simondonian thought undone by its algorithmic concretization – where time is outstripped 72. The disparations of the improbable and their rhizomatic dissolution 73. The common, work and knowledge 6: On Available Time for the Coming Generation 74. Law, work, wages 75. The organology of proletarianization 76. The reinvention of work 77. Hands, works, brains 78. The fundamental contradiction of the left with respect to work, its status, its division and its time 79. Alienated labour and liberated work 80. Available time and free work 81. Free time, the third sector and the social economy 7: Energies and Potentials in the Twenty-First Century 82. Energy and power after the ‘death of God’ 83. Against the omerta 84. Employment, knowledge, wealth 85. Otium, value and negentropy 86. The time of wealth 87. The decline of the division of labour 88. Ergology and energeia: work as noetic activity and the dual economy of energy 89. The new value of work as open science 90. The work of noesis and popular philosophy 91. Calculating power 92. Two forms of energy 93. Work and physics 94. Libidinal energy and care 8: Above and Beyond the Market 95. Organology of a positive right to interpretation 96. Above and beyond the market – honey and the income of noetic pollination 97. To subsist in order to exist through what consists 98. Organology of the Anthropocene and ‘opium of the people’ 99. Contributory income for intermittence 100. Organology of speculation 101. Therapeutics as neganthropology Conclusion Noetic Pollination and the Neganthropocene 102. Summary traceology of the architect 103. Therapeutics as neganthropology 104. The noetic hive 105. Before the immense. The digital res publica and the editorial question 106. The new system of objects 107. Of what work consists in the Neganthropocene 108. Noetic intermittence and cosmic potlatch Notes Introduction: Functional Stupidity, Entropy and Negentropy in the Anthropocene Chapter 1 The Industry of Traces and Automatized Artificial Crowds Chapter 2 States of Shock, States of Fact, States of Law Chapter 3 The Destruction of the Faculty of Dreaming Chapter 4 Overtaken: The Automatic Generation of Protentions Chapter 5 Within the Electronic Leviathan in Fact and in Law Chapter 6 On Available Time for the Coming Generation Chapter 7 Energies and Potentials in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 8 Above and Beyond the Market Conclusion: Noetic Pollination and the Neganthropocene Index EULA