The Last Human Job

The bundle no longer makes sense. In fact, it no longer exists. The few services that still require interaction with people of different classes are now governed by apps and algorithms. It is no longer necessary to get along with people or to be nice to them. You click on an app, someone delivers something, and you decide whether to add a tip witho... See more

What remains for humans is complexity, nuance, relationships, art, imagination and eccentric, counterintuitive thinking. We excel at surprise and being unpredictable. This is the work that will remain uniquely human and beautiful.

Sleep is an irrational and intolerable affirmation that there might be limits to the compatibility of living beings with the allegedly irresistible forces of modernization. One of the familiar truisms of contemporary critical thought is that there are no unalterable givens of nature—not even death, according to those who predict we will all soon be

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In industrial capitalism human beings created profit by working the machines. In posthuman capitalism the machines create profit by farming the human beings.