THE ECLIPSE OF THE UTOPIAS OF LABOR

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-cen tury notion of digital organisms. Step by stepfrom Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marxs Capital, Herman n von Helmholtzs social thermodynamics, Albert Speers Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplac e, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. This masterfu l follow-up ...[Read more]