KARL MARX ON TECHNOLOGY AND ALIENATION
Amy E.
Wendling
2009
Pages :
263
1 Karl
Marx’s Concept of Alienation 13
I Objectification, alienation, and
estrangement: on Marx’s Hegelian inheritance 14
II Other origins of “alienation” and “objectification”
24
III Marx’s account of alienation: from
early to late 37
IV The alienated object of production:
commodity fetishism 49
V The alienated means of production:
machine fetishism 55
2 Machines
and the Transformation of Work 61
I Marx’s energeticist turn 66
II The first law of thermodynamics: Kraft,
Stoff, and thediscourse of energetics 71
III From Arbeit to Arbeitskraft:
Marx’s transformation of work from self-actualization to energy expenditure 82
IV The second law of thermodynamics:
entropy, the heat death of the universe, and revolution 88
3 Machines
in the Communist Future 93
I Technology and the boundaries of
nature 93
II Material wealth and value: the Grundrisse’s
“Fragment on Machines” 98
III The strife between technology and
capital: the fall in the rate of profit 105
IV Enjoyment not value: challenging
the capitalist logic of exhaustion
V Man himself as fixed capital: the
symbiosis of human
and machine in the production of
material wealth 117
VI Class kinship and the
redistribution of the means of production 121
4 Machines
in the Capitalist Reality 128
I Between thermodynamics and humanism:
approaching Capital 128
II Machinery as an historical category
of production 136
III Machines, trains, and other
capitalist monsters 145
IV Rough, foul-mouthed boys: women’s
monstrous laboring bodies 155
V Wage labor and race 159
VI Wage labor and sexuality 164
VII Machinery and revolution 168
5
Alienation Beyond Marx 174
I Science and technology in Marx’s
excerpt notebooks 178
II Karl Marx and Charles Babbage: the
speed of
production in the Economic
Manuscripts of 1861–1863 182
III Machines and temporality: the
treadmill effect and free time 192
IV Technophobia and technophilia 199
V Technophobia and twentieth-century
theory 206
Notes 213
References
233
Index 240
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar