technology

In Absorbing Science and Technology, Capital is Digging its Own Grave

Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 17 2020 18:50

Capitalism is now undergoing a technological and scientific modernisation that is becoming a bomb ready to blow up the whole system. Humanity finds itself swept along in a vortex of technological innovations and automation.

The Machine and Its Discontents: A Fredy Perlman Anthology

A new Fredy Perlman anthology, joint published by Active Distribution and Theory and Practice 2018.

The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

Siena Cathedral as seen through Google’s neural network

An introduction to neoreaction and the "dark enlightenment", elitist and "hyperracist" ideologies that are popular with some sections of high-tech capital. Originally published by Viewpoint Magazine.

R.U.R. Rossumaj Universalaj Robotoj - Karel Čapek

R.U.R. estas kolektiva dramo de Karel Čapek, verkita en 1920. Tiu ĉi verko naskis la neologismon 'robot' (Esperante: roboto) por artefarita laboristo. La vorton elpensis la frato de Karel Čapek, pentristo Josef Čapek el la vorto "robota", kiu en la slavaj lingvoj signifas laboron, en la ĉeĥa konkrete servutan, duonsklavan laboron.

Taking stock: Reflections on the uncertain likelihood of a European revolution – Miguel Amorós

A 2018 assessment of the prospects for a communist revolution in Europe, where the “logic of the commodity and of unbridled economic development has so profoundly penetrated society that it has successfully prevented the appearance of any collective revolutionary subject”, in a situation in which “thinking constitutes the most radical and daring act, and also the one that arouses the most suspicion and hostility” but also one in which the elements for “a rigorous historical vision” (“ecological critique, anti-development analysis, anthropological studies and value theory”) are present, which could serve as the basis of orientation for “authentic revolutionary thought”.

Technological society—mass society – Miguel Amorós

A 2005 summary of the author’s views concerning the defeat of the working class in the 1970s and 1980s, the role played by technology in this defeat, the rise of the “masses” (who cannot “distinguish between reality and fiction”) that emerged from the dissolution of class consciousness as subjects of consumer society under the new totalitarian or “fascist” conditions, the repercussions of these developments on ideology (not exactly “fascist”, but a “hodgepodge … of previous ideologies”) and politics (“managing the survival of the masses under catastrophic conditions”) during the last thirty years, and prospects for revolutionary critique and resistance.

Response: A digital capitalism Marx might enjoy

Submitted by Afro Marxist on Jul 13 2018 02:14

This is a response to an article originally posted on the MIT Technology review . The article claims that the nature of capital has changed so much from the newly industrialized economies Marx knew that there is a fundamental change in capitalism Marx could agree with. They take this position in favor of labor, but we will see just how good their analysis and proposal for the position of the laborer in future society is.

The present technological revolution and the emergence of postcapitalist social relations

I will address three sets of questions:
First: is there a technological revolution, and in this case, what does it consist of?
Second: is there currently an emergence of a new type of social relations because of this revolution?
Third question: what consequences such a reality may have for a revolutionary perspective?