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Selection power
Description
Semantic labor
Syntactic labor
or process
Searching
Semantic labor
Syntactic labor
or process
Selection labor
Figure 4.2
Representation of synthesis
Transformation into a Dynamic
A dynamism that compels the transfer of human syntactic labor to tech-
nology is found in the conditions of direct human labor, including its
costs and elements of drudgery.
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Discerning a widespread preference, par-
ticularly under capitalism, for reducing the costs of processes by abridg-
ing direct human labor is a specific and historically rooted position. It
is distinguishable from Zipf's universalized principle of least effort or of
resistance to labor (1936). The equivalence of automatic machine to slave
labor (Wiener 1954, 162), a condition not often adopted voluntarily,
should also be recalled. “Can be” relations between categories are trans-
formed into “is.”
Syntactic labor can be transferred to information technology (labor
becomes process.)
is transformed into
Syntactic labor is transferred to information technology (labor becomes
process).
The transfer would apply to both syntactic description and to syntactic
search labor.
Description labor syntactic is transferred to information technology
(labor becomes process).
Search labor syntactic is transferred to information technology labor
(labor becomes process).
