NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prosumer, Scientific Management
5 Jan 2016
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Technology is driven by the need to replace human labour: as a side effect of that: people are displaced - are put out of work. Latour argues that technology is profoundly moral: are moral agents - constructs human morality. Technology is an act of force in the workplace- transformation: not just a tool. There"s a long history of resistance of technology: less directed to the technology itself but to the social changes that are invoked with the technology. Immaterial labour - produce data and knowledge, not materials. The era we live in right now o. Spinners and weavers would sit and repeat the same motion over and over again, a long factory line. Skills for spinning and weaver were then replaced by machines. It"s not like the weavers didn"t use some sort of technology in their work before, it"s this particular configuration of technology that had an interest against the workers.
