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There is an inner affinity between technological determinism, which is the core of the automation discourse, and its recourse to technocratic solutions. Both positions elide difficult social and political questions by transforming them into putatively objective facts.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Research from social psychology, for example, shows that people
are more reluctant to act on climate change ifthey are overwhelmed with negative information
(Nelder 2013). Worse, narratives of fear can become self-fulfilling prophecies. A typical
example exists in the role of expectations and fear in economics: if people believe that a
recession is on its way, they behave as if it is already here, and through that actually can cause
the recession without the presence of any objective factor driving the economy into recession
(Azariadis 1981).
Transformative Narratives for Climate Action
Diana Mangalagiu
Expanding the
sites and constituencies in which we think with care contributes new modes
of attention and problematics. So rather than give up on care because it
is enlisted in purposes we might deplore, we need to have its meanings
debated, unpacked, and reenacted in an implicated way that responds to
this present.
Matters of Care
María Puig de la Bellacasa
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