Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.
The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815-1848
Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521287593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Dr Berg argues that technical change was one of the foremost theoretical concerns of Ricardo and his successors, and the foundation for their distinctly optimistic view of the future. She shows how the Machinery Question fostered the social conditions in which the status of Political Economy as a discipline was established, and concludes that by the 1840s the divisions over machinery were firmly embedded in the great rival creeds of the future, liberalism and socialism.
The machinery question and making of political economy
Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Innovaciones tecnológicas
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Innovaciones tecnológicas
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The Concentration of Industry and Machinery in the United States
Author: Émile Levasseur
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Bodies/Machines
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
Principles of Political Economy
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
Author: David Ricardo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Moderate and Radical Liberalism
Author: Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900450804X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900450804X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.
Manufacture in Town and Country Before the Factory
Author: Maxine Berg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The essays in this book explore the internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The essays in this book explore the internal organisation of production before the development of the factory system.
Global Political Economy
Author: John Ravenhill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198737467
Category : Globalization
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The most balanced blend of empirical material and critical analysis from the leading figures in Global Political Economy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198737467
Category : Globalization
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The most balanced blend of empirical material and critical analysis from the leading figures in Global Political Economy.
The Eye of the Master
Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788730089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788730089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.