English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Proletariat, Reverse Engineering, Anthropocentrism
18 Oct 2016
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The way in which the factory system transforms people"s relationships to. Labour is now something we do in order to do things we really want, which is work not work. Labour is something we do when we are dead inside, when we are a machine. We have lost the idea that work is virtuous, an extension of the self in the world. Robots may relieve us of the necessity to work, but they also relieve us of our own humanity (we cease to be human when we start working) Prologue: helena comes and has a secret agenda, she represents the humanist world view, she represents the gendering of humanist and materialist, the world of feeling. Frankenstein is one guy fighting against another guy, highly individualized. Rur imagines the same problem on a larger scale: why did the robots start to have self-consciousness. Helena begged an engineer to give the robots a soul: the revolution begins in la harve.
