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    "Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes": Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence

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    Author
    Schiller, Amy
    McMahon, John
    Keyword
    labor
    domestic labor
    Marxist feminism
    affect theory
    artificial intelligence
    capitalism
    Journal title
    New Political Science
    Date Published
    2019
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1751
    Abstract
    The fantasy of automation is one of liberation from alienating tasks. Today, domestic artificial intelligence (AI) enacts this dream of frictionlessly offloading monotony. This article deploys theories of Marxist feminism, affective labor to interrogate domestic AI’s unprecedented promise of absorbing forms of labor we hardly acknowledged that we did. While these devices make the reproductive labor of the household legible as labor, we interrogate their quasi-emancipatory promise. We argue that devices such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home elide and reproduce the gendered and racialized dimensions of domestic labor, streamline this labor for capture by capital, and heighten the very affective dynamics they promise to ameliorate. Only critical political theories of work can illuminate the unfulfilled transformations and ongoing dominations of gender, race, and affect that saturate labor with domestic AI – expressed, we contend, by re-articulating the framework of the “social factory” to that of the “social server.”
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    Schiller, Amy, and John McMahon. 2019. “Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence.” New Political Science 41(2): 173–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2019.1595288.
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    10.1080/07393148.2019.1595288
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    10.1080/07393148.2019.1595288
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