Autonomous Technology Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

My research which is on its preliminary stage didn't set up an exact Research question so far. But the basic area comes under the broad categories of technology And Labour. According to Marxian tradition, technology is the one imperative, which defines the mode of production and relations of production. In the industrial or post-industrial era, the globalisation along with technological advancement completely redefined and altered the Industrial Relations, its relation to the state and how capital became flexible capital. It is a widely held notion that human inability to control the technology which he created hard trapped the society into something called fluid modernity or risk society. These pessimistic basic assumptions emerged from the technological deterministic understanding. This has led to the outcry for better alternatives or even going back to the good old days. On the one hand these ideas and reflexive understanding were limited to the audience of social Science scholars and activists .on the other hand, still, people who swearing for elected public offices promised better development through more technological innovations. How this book helps me in my search is its realistic, balanced understanding of technology and Society by not playing around the binaries of human agency and determinism. The workers who are affected will not want to blame the machine itself rather than the employer who conveniently used it for cutting down the labour cost. On the other hand, the machine out of control leads to a machine-oriented life, where it becomes a ritual more than utility.

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