Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

AI, Automation and Alienation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvAndrius Bielskis,Lithuania) Bielskis, Professor Andrius (Mykolas Romeris University

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With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions. As technology advances, how do we decide what activities should be automated? Is the end of work through automation actually desirable? If a good life is the life of activity employing our rational, imaginative, and creative powers, what does it mean to say that future societies will be post-work societies? Rather than simply embracing the possibilities of automation to eliminate work, this collection considers that meaningful work is integral to the good life. Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, reflecting on the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory. Contributions cover topics such as algorithmic management, the feared ‘superintelligence’ of machines, the concept of good work, and the alienating consequences of technology for workers. This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will be of interest to anyone considering new technologies from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-15
Mått146 x 218 x 18 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350510722

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Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction1. On Sheep and Self-Moving Tools: The Material Conditions for Human Flourishing, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)2. Techne in the Conflicts of Modernity: A MacIntyrean Approach to Technology, Kelvin Knight and Joe Simpson (London Metropolitan University, UK)3. Algorithmic Management: The Corrupting Power of Technology, Pablo Garcia Ruiz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)4. “Mild Preparations”: Work, Practices, and the Internal Good of Recognition, Matthew Sinnicks, Craig Reeves and Efuntomi Wosu (University of Southampton, UK)5. A Note on Marx, Alienation and Technology, Ruth Porter Groff (Saint Louis University, USA)6. Artificial Intelligence, Alienation, and the Existential Conditions of Human Flourishing, Jeff Noonan (University of Windsor, Canada)7. Marxism and the Idea of a Fully Automated Machine Society: Science Fiction Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare? Anthony Burns (University of Nottingham, UK)8. Automation and the Good Life: Technological Enslavement, Technological Liberation, or Technological Transformation? Egidijus Mardosas (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)Index

If there ever was the right book at the right moment, it is Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Its editor Andrius Bielskis did much more than assembling texts that fit the topic; instead of getting lost in the generalities about the influence of artificial intelligence on our lives, the texts approach from different aspects the same topic: how did and how will digital capitalism affect all levels of being human, from social freedoms to the most intimate experiences. Digital capitalism is not only a new phase of capitalism, it also announces a new phase of human subjectivity.