<P>Inspired by Roland Barthes''s practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots".</P><P>Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automation''s ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question accepted and prolific automation mythologies. Jesse Ramirez offers a study of automation that recognizes automation as a technosocial project, that uses the tools of cultural studies and history to investigate the narratives and ideologies that often implicitly frame the automation debate, and that concretely and soberly assesses the technologies that have made the headlines. The case studies featured include some of the most widely cited and celebrated automatic technologies, suc
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This EMEA edition of Robert Barro¿s popular text has been fully updated to reflect the macroeconomics of a post-financial crisis world. Starting with long-run macroeconomics, this text explores some of the key theories and models in macroeconomics such...
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<P><EM>Managing Negotiations </EM>is a collection of seven global, real-life case studies on prominent negotiations in the realm of international business and politics.</P><P>The book combines the rigorously researched frameworks...
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