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Foreground Maneuvers
Open Access
Critical Times (2018) 1 (1): 272–276.
Published: 01 April 2018
... an anomaly then, has moved into the very foreground of consciousness today. Globally dispersed and networked production spurred by automation has led to the paradoxical intersection of rising productivity and falling life chances. For the first time since the twentieth century, large populations at the very...
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The Value of the Surface: Reappreciating Embodiment, Labor, and Necessity in Arendt's Political Thought
Open Access
Critical Times (2021) 4 (2): 263–283.
Published: 01 August 2021
... and the common world. The article tracks the development of these reflections in Arendt's engagements with Karl Marx, Simone Weil, and Adolf Portmann. 30. Arendt, Jewish Writings , 466 . 31. Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism . For a related Arendtian argument, see Suuronen, “Resisting...
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Coding Time
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 353–369.
Published: 01 December 2019
... programming AlphaGo are completely incapable of explaining the algo-generating strategies in the program's victories over the leading human experts in games of chess and Go. Trading decisions may be made by algorithmic computation with complete automation, or auto-generation, so that human intervention...
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From 1990 to 2020
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 87–96.
Published: 01 April 2022
... workers did not really use knowledge and would therefore and necessarily lose their jobs to low- or medium-skill workforces in low-wage countries—or, a bit later, to automation. In short, conservative and liberal policymakers did not devote themselves to making sure everyone in the United States...
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Restructuring the Specialized University
Open Access
Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Catriona , eds. Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics . New York : Routledge , 2018 . Frey Carl Benedikt . The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . Graff Gerald...
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What Is the University For?
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the creative impulse that threatened not only human desire but scientific invention as well. If information was simply appropriated by a second industrial revolution, or employed toward more efficient and therefore devastating conditions of warfare, then the automation would reduce all labor that competes...
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PAN: A Performance Lecture
Open Access
Critical Times (2019) 2 (3): 493–517.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of scholars from Martin Heidegger to Friedrich Kittler who mark a shift in value, and he sees this as consequent on the emergence of the cybernetic: “Sometime in the middle of the twentieth century cybernetics began to eclipse venerable distinctions between thought and automation, human and machine, vibrant...
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