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Mental labour
- Contrast between industrial and information machines
- Substituting for (and enhancing) physical and mental labour
- Substituting for (and enhancing) physical and mental labour
- Relations between mental, intellectual and clerical labour
- Relate to the material basis of being
- Practice in advance of consciousness
- Adequacy of existing distinctions
- Pre-existing characterisations of mental labour
- Intellectual labour
- Clerical labour
- Clerical labour can be described as
a machine process
- Some forms of clerical labour can not be transferred
into machine process (Dictiction)
- Clerical labour can be described as
a machine process
- Division of occupations
- Pre-existing characterisations of mental labour
- Possibility of distinctions corresponding
to the material basis of being
- Relate to the material basis of being
- Semantic
- Examples
- Human understanding and composition of
written language may be highly intractable
computationally
- Writing is undifferentiated (no divisions). Mental labor not broken
down into intellectual (semantic) / clerical
- Spell checker
- Human understanding and composition of
written language may be highly intractable
computationally
- As human mental work motivated by
direct considerations of meaning
- Semantic labour increasingly exists as the
residue of what has not been reduced to a
syntactic process
- Semantic labour can exceed syntactic labour or processes
- The divide between intellectual and clerical work is becoming more blurred
- Examples
- Syntactic
- Examples
- Copying is a form of syntactic labour
- Adding numbers
- Copying is a form of syntactic labour
- Motivation
- This labour is much cheaper so if a
process can be done syntacticly, it
will be
- This labour is much cheaper so if a
process can be done syntacticly, it
will be
- Labour & Process
- Motivated or determined by patterns
- Motivated or determined by patterns
- Examples
- "Syntax is not semantics" (Searle, 1980)
- Warrant for distinction of semantic from syntactic labour (addition of concept of labour).
- Warrant for distinction of semantic from syntactic labour (addition of concept of labour).
- The distinction of semantic from syntactic
mental labour has been increasingly adopted
- A fundamental distinction between semantic and syntactic labor lies in the fact that
the former is ‘irreducibly human’ and not amenable to mechanization, whereas the
latter is ‘transferable to technology as [a form of] machine process.’
- A fundamental distinction between semantic and syntactic labor lies in the fact that
the former is ‘irreducibly human’ and not amenable to mechanization, whereas the
latter is ‘transferable to technology as [a form of] machine process.’
- Orginates as semantic labour
- Syntactic labour progressively separates out
- Easier ways to complete tasks are worked out
- Easier ways to complete tasks are worked out
- Syntactic labour progressively separates out
- Distinctions with regard to labour
- Universal and communal labour
- Universal labour and syntactic labour
- Communal labour and semantic labour
- Universal and communal labour
- Labour and expertise
- Knowledge as the product of
semantic mental labour over time
- Expertise as a manifestation of knowledge
- Exchange value of expertise
- Knowledge as the product of
semantic mental labour over time
- Results of dynamic of interchange
- Expansion of scope of syntactic processes
as a significant result (Expansion of human
capacities)
- Expansion of scope of syntactic processes
as a significant result (Expansion of human
capacities)
- Strategic
- If we can understand what is going on, we can intervene more
- If we can understand what is going on, we can intervene more
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