Pathological Development

Abstract

This chapter explores the idea that technological development isinherently pathological as long as it is co-opted by communicativecapitalism. The arguments of the preceding chapters are returned tothrough this framework, whilst debt is introduced as one of the biggestthreats both to mental health and to imagining a different future. Theaims of this chapter are modest: it concludes the book by summarisingthe key sites for resistance - both external and within left politics -and repeating the call for autonomy over automation; no manifesto isoffered since how this translates into action is an empirical affairbeyond the scope of this theoretical exploration.