Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, machines have been on the rise – along with the promise of a final exit from the production process. In capitalism, this equates to a systematic deformation of hand and mind. The ever-growing wealth of an intelligible object world could free both from the compulsion of toil – such is the utopian dimension of Karl Marx's famous machine fragment. The grim reality of an information-based online capitalism seems to far exceed the optimistic prognosis: In parallel with the global trend towards the expansion of industrial labor, the remnants of a Keynesian full employment ideology lead to the gradual increase of bullshit jobs – and the state mediation into these. The productive capacities of machinery are equally lost from view as are the attempts to appropriate them: servers, signal processors, and undersea cables could long cover the vacated miles of errand boys and servants – provided we relate to them and take responsibility for them. Lewis Mumford and Gilbert Simondon began such attempts early on. Barbara Eder continues them.