The Digital Agent versus Human Agency: The Political Economy of Alienation and Agnotology in Digital Capitalism

FORTHCOMING Winter 2020

Anything that can be automated, will be. The robots will take your job. This book is about what happens afterwards. The Digital Agent versus Human Agency continues the analysis begun in The Critique of Digital Capitalism: the central place of human needs, desires, and actions in the creation of “profit” (value) is ignored in the[…]

An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History

Imprint: Dead Letter Office

Published: 01/18/2017

A nationwide survey conducted by an institute for philosophical research has determined that nihilists, on the whole, have good intentions. In An Unspecific Dog, Joshua Rothes collects 150 short texts as fables for our time, a veritable catalog of agnotology, a series of situations and propositions that revel in the dark irony at the root[…]

The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology

Published: 01/07/2016

Anything that can be automated, will be.