Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Precarious Rhapsody (4-8) "Autonomy/ Capital/Labor"

Autonomy and its connection to capitalism
 The development of an "Evil Desire"
Autonomy = the right to self govern

Bifo explains that " autonomy is the Independence of social time from the temporarily of capitalism" ( Bifo 75)
"This is the meaning of refusal of work. It means quite simply: I don't want to go to work because I prefer to sleep. But this laziness is the source of intelligence, of technology, of progress. Autonomy is the self-regulation of the social body in its Independence and in its interaction with the disciplinary norm." (75)

I was a bit confused in terms of what Bifo was trying to argue. However, I was able to understand his argument on autonomy and its affect on society. According to Bifo our right to self regulation allows for the rise of a lazy generation. Technology creates a rise of human dependency on the media and its advances.
However, I was able to come to the conclusion that although I previously thought that Bifo was attacking autonomy, he is actually discussing how things that are good ( in terms of people being able to have more power) things can actually go bad.

Flexibilazition benefiting capital?

Workers aren't getting hired because technology replaces the massive need for work? This is what I got from his argument. This was a scary point considering the generation we are a part of. Each day government funded programs are being cut. People are making less money because their aren't enough jobs. Technology replaces the physical worker because it is working to increase profit without really paying anybody to work. Think about it this way? This may not be the best example but its an example that came to my mind while reading this chapter. Technology replaces human labor (Example: we no longer need people to sell and distribute soda's we have machines who we can put the money in and it throws out cans of soda) This isn't the best example but it is the same idea of what the media does. A persons job is lost because the machine replaces the person. It is the same thing with computers. It is good to move away from capital. However, isn't it bad if people are losing jobs over this? How will people survive. Technology doesn't have a problem with lower pay and doesn't have the problems humans complain about..I think this was Bifo's strongest point and the one I agree with him the most on.

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