Artificial Intelligence, Post-Work and Music Labor

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https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2024.7.12.32

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automatization, Post-Work, Music Labor, Creative Labor

Abstract

The recent – purportedly rapid – development of AI tools has again resurrected the actuality of post-work u-/dystopias. Drawing on discursive topoi which have become popular since the post-WW2 automatization surge, AI post-work now advances into the field of white-collar labor, but also creative, artistic, and even music labor. In this paper I aim to analyze the emergent arrival of the post-work thesis into music labor. I will draw on prominent critics of automatization, AI and post-work discourses, such as Pierre Naville, Aaron Benanav and Jason Resnikoff, to show that these discourses are not only unsubstantiated, but are instrumentalized in order to depreciate the value of concrete labor in music production.

Author Biography

  • Srđan Atanasovski, Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

    Srđan Atanasovski is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Musicology SASA, where he has worked since 2011. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Belgrade in 2015, with the dissertation “Musical practices and the production of national territory”. From 2016 to 2023, he worked as a lecturer in the program SIT Western Balkans: Peace and Conflict Studies. He was also involved in several international scientific projects, including Figuring Out the Enemy (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade) and City Sonic Ecology – Urban Soundscapes of Bern, Ljubljana and Belgrade (University of Bern). He has held a scholarship from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Science for doctoral and postdoctoral research. His first book, Mapping Old Serbia: In the Footsteps of Travelers, Following the Traces of Folk Songs was published in 2017 by the Library 20th Century, and his second book, Schubert and Rivalry as a Creative Principle, was published in 2023 by the Academic Book and the Institute of Musicology SASA. Since 2008, he has worked as the author of shows on the Third Program of Radio Belgrade about the music of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Published

23.07.2024

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No. 12 (2024): Artificial Intelligence in Music, Arts, and Theory Revisited

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Artificial Intelligence, Post-Work and Music Labor. (2024). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 12, 32-45. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2024.7.12.32
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