Abstract
The book is concerned with a distinction between semantic and syntactic labor. Semantic labor is understood as human mental labor motivated by direct engagement with meaning and syntactic labor as mental labor determined by patterns of expression. The distinction molds into a distinction of human semantic labor from machine (computer) syntactic process. It precisely, and uniquely, captures the current distribution of mental labor between human and machine. The aim of the book is to give a full synthesis of current understanding of the distinction.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London and New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 120 |
| Publication status | Accepted - 24 Mar 2021 |
Keywords
- semantic syntactic labor
- human computer
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences