Braucht die Wirtschaft den Menschen noch?
Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2015 | 11:45 Uhr
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Abstract
Dehumanized economy is one of the integral issues we encounter while discussing our future. By «dehumanization», we mean a scenario, in which the productive forces of an economic system have been completely absorbed by machines. In this scenario, the automated production of goods is not reduced to the process of fabrication, but also includes planning, administration, and distribution. The scenario even provides the possibility of machines acting as full competent economic agents in terms of buying and selling, of expansion and investment. Think of a computer that does not only control a car, but a computer that builds up its own fleet of automated cabs.
Whereas the 20th century usually abhorred this scenario, it is meanwhile embraced even by critics of capitalism, such as the «Accelerationists» Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Being a literary scholar, my talk focuses mainly on the narratives that surround the dystopian as well as the utopian imagination of non-human economy. My talk should ask for the reasons of this change of mentality. It will survey competing future fiction and tries to find an answer to the crucial question: If all work is done by machines – how will we pay them?
(Abstract nur auf Englisch verfügbar)
Philipp Theisohn
| Seit 2013 | Professor am Deutschen Seminar der Universität Zürich |
| 2012 | Professur für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft am Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main |
| 2011 | Venia legendi für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft sowie Allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| 2008- 2013 | Oberassistent an der Professur für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der ETH Zürich |
| 2007- 2008 | Akademischer Rat a.Z. am Deutschen Seminar der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| 2004-2006 | Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter am Deutschen Seminar der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
| 2004 | Promotion zum Dr. phil. an der Neuphilologischen Fakultät der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. |
| 2001-2002 | Visiting Research Fellow an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 1994-1999 | Studium der Neueren Deutschen Literaturwissenschaft, der Mediävistik und der Philosophie in Tübingen und Zürich; Abschluss mit Magister Artium |
