Jason Resnikoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Resnikoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Resnikoff |
| SIGNATURE | RESNIKOFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5159-8984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept
Rather than a dispassionate term of engineering, automation is what scholars of STS (Science, Technology, and Society) call a “sociotechnical imaginary.” It offers a seductive and ready-to-hand teleological narrative about history, work, and technological change that obscures the politics behind seemingly incontestable and objective realities. Far from an accounting of the apolitical development of productive forces, the history of automation—as …
Contesting the Idea of Progress
The Technology Trap
In 2013, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published a paper claiming that 47 percent of jobs in the United States were in danger of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). The paper made quite a splash at the time. Apparently even Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors took it quite seriously (322).A decade later, Frey's fears haven't quite come to pass. (A Bureau of Labor Statistics report from July 2022 in fact finds little e…
The Myth of Black Obsolescence
A few years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company began issuing a series of increasingly urgent reports concerning “automation” and the future of work. Defining automation broadly as artificial intelligence and “other digital technologies,” the company promised in its reports that it could advise companies how they might prepare. Amidst this flurry of publication, McKinsey produced several articles specifically on the theme of “The…
The Paradox of Automation
With the neutering of the QWERTY keyboard in the early 1980s following largely successful clerical worker organizing, male workers in offices began taking on clerical work that, until recently, they would have considered beneath both their job descriptions and their manhood. Paradoxically, the men who now began typing, filing, and performing data entry for themselves did not generally consider the imposition of these new tasks an increase in work…
The Problem with Post-Work
“Work means everything to us,” James Livingston writes in the introduction to his recent book, No More Work: Why Full Employment Is A Bad Idea . The meaning of work, what Livingston calls the work ethic, is our problem. “And we've believed that, even if it sucks, a job gives meaning, purpose and structure to our everyday lives—at any rate, we're pretty sure that it gets us out of bed, pays the bills, makes us feel responsible, and keeps us away f…
The Paradox of Automation
With the neutering of the QWERTY keyboard in the early 1980s following largely successful clerical worker organizing, male workers in offices began taking on clerical work that, until recently, they would have considered beneath both their job descriptions and their manhood. Paradoxically, the men who now began typing, filing, and performing data entry for themselves did not generally consider the imposition of these new tasks an increase in work…
Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept
Rather than a dispassionate term of engineering, automation is what scholars of STS (Science, Technology, and Society) call a “sociotechnical imaginary.” It offers a seductive and ready-to-hand teleological narrative about history, work, and technological change that obscures the politics behind seemingly incontestable and objective realities. Far from an accounting of the apolitical development of productive forces, the history of automation—as …
The Problem with Post-Work
“Work means everything to us,” James Livingston writes in the introduction to his recent book, No More Work: Why Full Employment Is A Bad Idea . The meaning of work, what Livingston calls the work ethic, is our problem. “And we've believed that, even if it sucks, a job gives meaning, purpose and structure to our everyday lives—at any rate, we're pretty sure that it gets us out of bed, pays the bills, makes us feel responsible, and keeps us away f…
The Paradox of Automation
With the neutering of the QWERTY keyboard in the early 1980s following largely successful clerical worker organizing, male workers in offices began taking on clerical work that, until recently, they would have considered beneath both their job descriptions and their manhood. Paradoxically, the men who now began typing, filing, and performing data entry for themselves did not generally consider the imposition of these new tasks an increase in work…
The Myth of Black Obsolescence
A few years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company began issuing a series of increasingly urgent reports concerning “automation” and the future of work. Defining automation broadly as artificial intelligence and “other digital technologies,” the company promised in its reports that it could advise companies how they might prepare. Amidst this flurry of publication, McKinsey produced several articles specifically on the theme of “The…
The Technology Trap
In 2013, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published a paper claiming that 47 percent of jobs in the United States were in danger of being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). The paper made quite a splash at the time. Apparently even Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors took it quite seriously (322).A decade later, Frey's fears haven't quite come to pass. (A Bureau of Labor Statistics report from July 2022 in fact finds little e…
Whence Automation? The History (and Possible Futures) of a Concept
Rather than a dispassionate term of engineering, automation is what scholars of STS (Science, Technology, and Society) call a “sociotechnical imaginary.” It offers a seductive and ready-to-hand teleological narrative about history, work, and technological change that obscures the politics behind seemingly incontestable and objective realities. Far from an accounting of the apolitical development of productive forces, the history of automation—as …
Contesting the Idea of Progress
Engineering (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Automation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works)