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
Authors | Ellis, D. |
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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 |
File | License File Access Level Anyone |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Jan 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
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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