In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation. This concept—much more profound and widespread today than first described and denounced by Marx—has largely been forgotten and erased. Using the characters of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Prometheus, the author reinterprets and updates Marx, Nietzsche, Anders, Foucault and, in particular, critical theory and the Frankfurt School views on an administered society (where everything is automated and engineered, manifest today in algorithms, AI, machine learning and social networking) showing that, in a world where old and new forms of alienation come together, man is increasingly led to delegate (i.e. alienate) sovereignty, freedom, responsibility and the awareness of being alive.
Author(s): Lelio Demichelis, Lemuel Caution | Translator
Series: Marx, Engels, And Marxisms
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 313
Tags: Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Communication; Political Sociology; Artificial Intelligence
Series Foreword
Titles Published
Titles Forthcoming
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Alienated in the Network–Factory/Swarm–Factory
The Disciplining Biopolitics
Role-Function Socialization of Technological Innovation
Caliban vs. Prospero
The Three Phases of Techno-Capitalism
References
Techno-Capitalist Determinism
Alienation, Past and Present
The Factory—Network and Alienation
The Religion of the False Ego
The Illusion of Individual Freedom. Eros and Techno-Capitalism
References
A Happy Self-Alienation
Performance as a Discipline and as a Biopolitics
Narcissism According to Lasch. Via Nietzsche
References
Narcisuss, Pygmalion and Prometheus
In Front of the Mirror/screen
The Minimal Self Is Not Minimal
Narcissus–Prometheus and Pygmalion–Prometheus
Reason and Passions: Techno-Capitalism, the Homeric Hero and Greek Tragedy
Passions and Alienation. Connected, but Alienated
References
The Internet of Things and the Internet of Human Beings
The Individual and (Again) the False Individual
From the Rights of the Individual to the Biopower of the Organization
From God to Techno-Capitalism
Alienation and Religion
References
From Guy Debord to Pulsive Integrated Techno-Capitalism
Guy Debord and Situationism
From 1968 to the ’20s and Back to the ’80s
Ego and Technology: Technocene and Technophilia Become Technopathy
References
Well Masked Alienation (I)
“Always Dare to Be Ahead of Everyone Else”
Catallaxis, Dice, Gambling and Techno-Capitalist Addiction to Gaming
The Disruption and Elimination of Limits
The Automobile—And Now the Network—As “Authority”
The False Decline of Techno-Capitalism
Business Management and Pastoral Power Over Life
Impassioned (and Passionate) Servitude
References
Well Masked Alienation (II)
Desiring-Machines
The Alienation (I). Karl Marx
The Alienation (II). From Hegel to Lukács. And (Again) to Marcuse
Alienation (III). Günther Anders
Alienation Past and Present (IV)
References
The Nomos of Techno-Capitalism and the Diseases of Humanity
When Narcissus–Pygmalion–Prometheus Falls Ill
References
References
Index
