Arbeitskraft
| Title | Arbeitskraft |
| Year for Search | 2012 |
| Authors | Mamatas, Nick(b. 1972) |
| Secondary Authors | Wallace, Sean |
| Secondary Title | The Mammoth Book of Steampunk |
| Pagination | 440-61 |
| Date Published | 2012 |
| Publisher | London/New York |
| Place Published | Robinson/Running Press |
| ISBN Number | 9780762444687 978-1616963002 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author's The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37. |
| Holding Institutions | PU |
| Author Note | (b. 1972) |
| Full Text | 2012 Mamatas, Nick (b. 1972). “Arbeitskraft.” The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. Ed. Sean Wallace (London: Robinson/New York: Running Press, 2012), 440-61. Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in his The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37. PU The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine. |
