Against the Troika / Heiner Flassbeck

Public ISBD Titre : Against the Troika : Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Heiner Flassbeck, Auteur ; Costas Lapavitsas, Auteur ; Oskar Lafontaine, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 144 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 09.05 Europe Résumé : As Syriza comes to power in Greece, a radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic failure, beyond repair—and certainly not in the interests of Europe’s working people. Against the Troika : Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone [texte imprimé] / Heiner Flassbeck, Auteur ; Costas Lapavitsas, Auteur ; Oskar Lafontaine, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2015 . - 144 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 09.05 Europe Résumé : As Syriza comes to power in Greece, a radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic failure, beyond repair—and certainly not in the interests of Europe’s working people.

Fully Automated Luxury Communism / Aaron Bastani

Public ISBD Titre : Fully Automated Luxury Communism : A Manifesto Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Aaron Bastani, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2020 Importance : 278 p Note générale : 01.03 BAS Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Communisme  Alternatives économiques  Ressources naturelles  Automatisation Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness--for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities--food, healthcare and housing--towards zero. Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history. Fully Automated Luxury Communism : A Manifesto [texte imprimé] / Aaron Bastani, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2020 . - 278 p. 01.03 BAS Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Communisme  Alternatives économiques  Ressources naturelles  Automatisation Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness--for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities--food, healthcare and housing--towards zero. Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.

The Eye of the Master / Matteo Pasquinelli

Public ISBD Titre : The Eye of the Master : A Social History of Artificial Intelligence Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Matteo Pasquinelli, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2023 Importance : 264 p Note générale : 01.03 PAS Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire sociale  Technologie  Intelligence artificielle  Automatisation Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : A “social” history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or "sentient", as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. The Eye of the Master urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the "mystery" of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se. The Eye of the Master : A Social History of Artificial Intelligence [texte imprimé] / Matteo Pasquinelli, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2023 . - 264 p. 01.03 PAS Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Tags : Histoire sociale  Technologie  Intelligence artificielle  Automatisation Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : A “social” history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The Eye of the Master argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's "calculating engines" of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or "sentient", as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. The Eye of the Master urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the "mystery" of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.

The threat to reason / Dan Hind

Public ISBD Titre : The threat to reason : how the enlightment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Hind, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 198 p Note générale : 01.HIN Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Politique économique Tags : Politique économique  Etat  Entreprises  Industrie pharmaceutique  Science Index. décimale : 01 - Economie Résumé : In exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a powerful guiding principle in Western politics, "The Threat to Reason" reveals how the truly pressing threats to free inquiry reside within the allegedly enlightened institutions of state and corporation. In recovering the concept of Enlightenment from its self-appointed defenders, "The Threat to Reason" demonstrates its crucial importance to a truly democratic politics, rather than a political performance in which we remain merely spectators. The threat to reason : how the enlightment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it [texte imprimé] / Dan Hind, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2008 . - 198 p. 01.HIN Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Politique économique Tags : Politique économique  Etat  Entreprises  Industrie pharmaceutique  Science Index. décimale : 01 - Economie Résumé : In exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a powerful guiding principle in Western politics, "The Threat to Reason" reveals how the truly pressing threats to free inquiry reside within the allegedly enlightened institutions of state and corporation. In recovering the concept of Enlightenment from its self-appointed defenders, "The Threat to Reason" demonstrates its crucial importance to a truly democratic politics, rather than a political performance in which we remain merely spectators.

Work without the worker / Phil Jones

Public ISBD Titre : Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Phil Jones, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 134 p Note générale : 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance. Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of. Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism [texte imprimé] / Phil Jones, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2021 . - 134 p. 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance. Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of.

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