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Karl Marx on technology and alienation

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English
Pages
262

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Karl Marx on technology and alienation
2009, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Karl Marx's concept of alienation
Objectification, alienation, and estrangement
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
From arbeit to arbeitskraft
The second law of thermodynamics
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 logic of exhaustion
Man himself as fixed capital
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
Machines and temporality : the treadmill effect and free time
Technophobia and technophilia
Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
335.4/1
Library of Congress
B3305.M74 W45 2009, JC11-607B65H61.15B79

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22671734M
Internet Archive
karlmarxontechno00wend
ISBN 10
0230224407
ISBN 13
9780230224407
LCCN
2008046488
OCLC/WorldCat
270129908
Library Thing
8176176
Goodreads
7012354

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