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Karl Marx on technology and alienation

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Karl Marx on technology and alienationAmyE Wendling.
Author:	Wendling, Amy E.,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	x, 252 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	TechnologyPhilosophy.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230233997

Karl Marx on technology and alienation
Wendling, Amy E.,1976-

Karl Marx on technology and alienation[electronic resource] /AmyE Wendling. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - x, 252 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-239) and index.

Introduction -- Karl Marx's concept of alienation -- Objectification, alienation, and estrangement : on Marx's Hegelian inheritance -- 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 : Kraft, Stoff, and the discourse of energetics -- From arbeit to arbeitskraft : Marx's transformationof work from self-actualization to energy expenditure -- The second law of thermodynamics : entropy, the heat death of the universe, and revolution -- 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 capitalist logic of exhaustion -- Man himself as fixed capital : the symbiosis of human and machine in the production of material wealth -- 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 : the speed of production in the Economic manuscripts of 1861-1863 -- Machines and temporality : the treadmill effect and freetime -- Technophobia and technophilia -- Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.

For Marx, technology exemplifies the interaction between human beings and nature. Marx's description of this interaction is in transition throughout his works. An older, humanist and vitalist paradigm sets the human being against nature as a qualitatively different type of force. A newer, thermodynamic paradigm sets the human being and nature in continuity. Marx's work occurs at the juncture of these paradigms and contains elements of each. This affects his deployment of the concept "labor". Labor is demoted from its status as a meaningful human activity thatconfers political status andmastery of the natural world, and it becomes a mere nodal point where energy is transferred. Against this backdrop, Marx increasingly appealed not to meaningful labor but to the abolition of labor asthe culmination of human freedom. He also shows how the labours of members of the working class, including women, are interpreted in the old and new paradigms.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230233997

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230233997doiSubjects--Personal Names:

176034
Marx, Karl,
1818-1883.Subjects--Topical Terms:

283202
Technology
--Philosophy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B3305.M74 / W45 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 335.4/1

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