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

dc.contributor.authorSchiller, Amy
dc.contributor.authorMcMahon, John
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-09T15:56:14Z
dc.date.available2021-06-09T15:56:14Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationSchiller, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07393148.2019.1595288
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1751
dc.description.abstractThe 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.”en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectlaboren_US
dc.subjectdomestic laboren_US
dc.subjectMarxist feminismen_US
dc.subjectaffect theoryen_US
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectcapitalismen_US
dc.title"Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes": Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.source.journaltitleNew Political Scienceen_US
dc.description.versionSMURen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-06-09T15:56:15Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Plattsburghen_US
dc.description.departmentPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.description.degreelevelN/Aen_US


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