Art and Postcapitalism by Dave Beech;

Author:Dave Beech;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

since machinery in itself shortens the hours of labour, but when employed by capital it lengthens them; since in itself it lightens labour, but when employed by capital is heightens its intensity; since in itself it is a victory of man over the forces of nature but in the hands of capital it makes man the slave of those forces; since in itself it increases the wealth of the producers, but in the hands of capital it makes them into paupers.53

It is a mistake to focus on technology in isolation from its social form.

Left Accelerationism stresses the robot as a benign servant of humans, releasing them from toil and drudgery.54 Humans become obsolete for rightwing accelerationism because the superhuman powers of technology can only serve humans by being limited by them, whereas humans become fully realised for Left Accelerationism by being converted from producers to consumers of automated systems of production. For Left Accelerationism, therefore, the historical purpose of roboticisation is to replace the proletariat and all domestic labour so that all human beings are freed from work.55 Roboticisation, therefore, does not bring about an absolute end to work but a new posthuman division of labour: work gets done, but not by humans. Insofar as the machine and the robot come to represent humanity’s salvation from work, therefore, the robot takes the place of the worker while humans, if they survive, occupy the place of the privileged, the propertied and the workless genius.

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