Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation /
Wendling, Amy E., 1976-
Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation / Amy E Wendling. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 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 transformation of 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 free time -- Technophobia and technophilia -- Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.
0230224407 (hardback) 9780230224407 (hardback)
2008046488
GBA8D8437 bnb
014851958 Uk
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Technology--Philosophy.
Alienation (Philosophy)
B3305.M74 / W45 2009
335.41 / WEN
Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation / Amy E Wendling. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 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 transformation of 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 free time -- Technophobia and technophilia -- Technophobia and twentieth-century theory.
0230224407 (hardback) 9780230224407 (hardback)
2008046488
GBA8D8437 bnb
014851958 Uk
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
Technology--Philosophy.
Alienation (Philosophy)
B3305.M74 / W45 2009
335.41 / WEN