Locked-Down, Log-In and Slog-On: A Technocratic Dystopia?

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Ellis, D. 2021. Locked-Down, Log-In and Slog-On: A Technocratic Dystopia? in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19 Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 111-127

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Authors	Ellis, D.
Editors	Ellis, D. and Voela, A.
Abstract	This chapter discusses how some relationships with technology throughout the pandemic were radically enhanced because of social (physical) distancing. It has been said that several years of technological evolution were condensed into a few months. To think about some of the consequences of this for the psychosocial subject, Gilbert Simondon’s views of the relationships of humans and machines in the workplace are drawn upon. According to him these relationships either enhance processes related to alienation or individuation. Experiences of both technological enslavement and liberation are discussed in the light of a locked-down academic.
Book title	After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19
Page range	111-127
Year	2021
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
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Online	01 Jan 2022
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Deposited	02 Mar 2022
Series	Studies in the Psychosocial
ISBN	9783030802783
	9783030802776
ISSN	2662-2637
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3_6
Web address (URL)	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80278-3
Copyright holder	© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

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