Novara FM: The Age of Endless War
What if our efforts to make war more humane have also made them unwinnable? Yale professor Samuel Moyn speaks to Aaron Bastani.
Tag: automation
Novara FM: Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs
'To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.' Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.
Novara FM: After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
What if the automation theorists are wrong? How might we build utopia without them? Aaron Benanav joins James Butler to gaze into the future.
Analysis: Automation Will Create More Jobs, But Most Will Be Shit
Matthew Cole
The much-prophesied “jobs apocalypse” of the fourth industrial revolution will likely never materialise. Yet that isn't to say new technologies aren't degrading work, warns Matthew Cole.
Analysis: ‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
Alessandro Delfanti
By filing hundreds of patents a year, Amazon publishes its ideas for new technologies and ways of managing workers. As part of our focus on the future of work, Alessandro Delfanti explores some of the technological futures Amazon has in mind.
Opinion: Coronavirus Will Accelerate Automation. So Why the Calls for ‘Jobs Jobs Jobs’?
Aaron Bastani
For more than a decade, a different kind of economy has been emerging all around us. Calls for ‘jobs jobs jobs’ fail to recognise that far from just creating temporary problems for businesses, coronavirus is accelerating changes which were already coming, argues Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: A Four-Day Week Is Possible
Aidan Harper
Abandoning demands for shorter working hours risks discarding a highly popular policy with the capacity to transform our society for the betterment of all, argues Aidan Harper.
Novara FM: Clear Bright Future: Paul Mason on Radical Humanism
James Butler is joined by Paul Mason to discuss his new book, Clear Bright Future. In a time of political repression and looming technological dystopia, can resistance be found in a renewed understanding of humanity itself?
Novara FM: After Work?
James Butler is joined by Will Stronge, director of the think tank Autonomy, to discuss the future of work.
Novara FM: A New Dark Age?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by James Bridle, to discuss the politics of technology, silicon prometheanism, how to think about the present – and why nothing seemed to happen after the Snowden leaks.
Robots Aren’t Coming for Our Jobs – Capitalists Are
Grace Blakeley
We often here about how automation is coming for our jobs whether we like it or not, but automation isn't an impersonal force of history - it's a political process with contestable consequences, argues Grace Blakeley.
Left Left Up: Tesla, Robot Tax and Uber
Watch the inaugural ‘Left Left Up’ – your monthly fix of gaming & tech news covered from a radical perspective. This month we will be discussing Tesla, Robot Taxes, Uber Drivers and so much more!
Long Read: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash The Network
Trebor Scholz
Trebor Schulz argues that we need to re-imagine the way we organise work and ownership in high-tech industries.
Novara FM: Platform Capitalism
On this week's #NovaraFM Aaron Bastani is joined by Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism.
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?
Novara FM: The Crapulent Moronism of Will Hutton (Or ‘On Automation’)
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss automation, value, the secular crisis and the society of work.
Novara FM: Surplus: Labour and Capital, Utopia and Dystopia
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler are joined by Hannah Forbes Black as they discuss ideas of surplus in relation to labour and capital, utopia and dystopia.