source of profit as such and a source of confidence. Fordism and Taylorism were part of this movement, as was the development of control over the mass of consumers and over public opinion via marketing and advertising, in charge of extortin…Conversely, slowness has been at the core of another section/level of struggles against Capital. Luddite sabotage should not be interpreted from a traditional marxist perspective as a simple, primitive rebellion by the organized proletariat…
Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Frederick Winslow Taylor, the early 20th-century pioneer of scientific management and time-motion studies, appears in the course materials as a foundational figure in the mechanization and rationalization of labor—a regime that the readings identify as central to both industrial capitalism and its resistance. The excerpts invoke Taylorism alongside Fordism as a system of control that extends beyond the factory floor into consumer consciousness and the colonization of time itself, making Taylor's methods a crucial foil for understanding how automation and optimization become tools of domination. This framing positions Taylor as essential to the genealogy of algorithmic and cybernetic control that the seminar traces from industrial production through contemporary AI systems.
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