Automation and Disability: Labor Conditions in Robot Futurity
"When I hear us dream our futures, believe we will make it to one, We will make one. The future lives in our bodies. Touch it." from "Femme Futures" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha I’m going to start right at my point: In the automated future, we’ll all be disabled. But I’ll get back to that in a second. First, let’s talk about robots and labor: Robots (or automatons or replicants or synths or droids or “skin jobs”) have long been stand-ins for discussions about labor eth