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Escaping the anthropocene
pp. 149-163
Abstract
Algorithmic automation has led to both a decline of wage labour and employment and a cultural proletarianisation, that is a loss of theoretical and practical knowledge. On one side, algorithmic automation influences the imminent disappearance of the Keynesian model of redistributing productivity gains, a model that has until now been the basis of the macroeconomic system's ability to remain solvent. On the other, it has deprived us of people abilities, causing a vertiginous increase in entropy. To invert this trend, the alternative path requires negentropic abilities—originating human power of agency—to be widely developed on a massive scale via a reorganisation of economics.
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Magatti Mauro (2017) The crisis conundrum: how to reconcile economy and society. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 149-163
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47864-7_7
Full citation:
Stiegler Bernard (2017) „Escaping the anthropocene“, In: M. Magatti (ed.), The crisis conundrum, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 149–163.