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URL:https://breakingtheframe.org.uk/calendarofevents/digital-technology-an
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SUMMARY:Digital automation: 'post-capitalism' or a new Lucas Plan? – Lond
 on – 9th November 2017
DESCRIPTION:\n 	Free/donation\n 	7.15pm\, November 9th\n\n 	Venue: LARC (Lo
 ndon Action Resource Centre)\, 62 Fieldgate Street\, Whitechapel\, London 
 E1 1ES\n\nInterrogating Digital Capitalism: A series of monthly events que
 stioning liberal ideas of progress through technology\nDigital technology 
 powers neoliberal capitalism: it is central to globalisation\, financialis
 ation\, the ‘flexible economy’\, ongoing waves of automation and now\,
  ‘big data capitalism’.\n\nLiberals and many leftists assume that the 
 problem is not the technology\, but its abuse by corporations\, the milita
 ry and the state. But what if we are in a techno-social regime\, in which 
 these interests shape technology – and technology\, in turn\, shapes cap
 italism in a way that reinforces itself?\n\nWhat if we are in a digital te
 chnocracy in which cybernetic principles of information capture and flexib
 le control are becoming embedded throughout society? What if it is not jus
 t a matter of ‘rescuing the digital baby from the capitalist bathwater
 ’?\n\nJoin us at this series of monthly events looking at current challe
 nges raised by digital capitalism.\nEvent 3 - Digital technology and autom
 ation: the end of capitalism or a new Lucas Plan?\nDigital technology-driv
 en automation and restructuring has been ongoing since the 1960s\, most no
 toriously in the destruction of the printers’ unions by Rupert Murdoch i
 n the 1980s.  \nNow\, the impending ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is
  creating widespread public anxiety about massive job losses caused by rob
 ots and software\, and threats to workers rights as digital technology res
 tructures the economy.  Some on the left have welcomed this trend\, argui
 ng that\, with Universal Basic Income\, automation can produce a post-work
 \, or even ‘post-capitalist’ utopia.  Another left tradition\, embodi
 ed by the Lucas Plan of the 1970s\, argues for socially useful work and fo
 r putting human skills at the centre of production.\n\n 	Tahir Latif of PC
 S union will describe current challenges for workers facing automation in 
 air traffic control.\n 	Jim Benfield\, of Independent Workers of Great Bri
 tain (IWGB) will talk about the Deliveroo strike and impact of digital tec
 hnology in the gig economy.\n 	Dave King of Breaking the Frame will critiq
 ue recent calls for 'full automation' from the left\, and show how the Luc
 as Plan provides a better solution for the future.\n\nFor more information
  contact info@breakingtheframe.org.uk \n&nbsp\;
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