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Against Automation Mythologies babywearing Responding to the critics throughInspired by Roland Barthess practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots". Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automations ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social