SPEED'S WORK - An Autistic Intervention in the Concept of Work In the Age of AI and Robotics

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Contextual Research Note (Author Accepted Manuscript) Contextual Research Note Speeds Work represents a central consolidation point within the author’s long-term research program on work, value, neurodivergent epistemology, and systemic violence in late-capitalist societies. While earlier works such as Society Without Trust (Gesellschaft ohne Vertrauen) and Radical Worker develop foundational critiques of trust, labor, and institutional power, this volume brings these strands together into a comprehensive, formally articulated intervention in the concept of work under conditions of automation, artificial intelligence, and administrative governance. The book combines Artistic Research, long-term empirical intervention, and theoretical synthesis. It documents a decade-long, real-world investigation into labor institutions, welfare systems, courts, and media organizations, treating lived confrontation not as anecdotal evidence but as an epistemic method. The author’s neurodivergent position is not framed as a subjective limitation but as a structurally productive research stance, enabling forms of pattern recognition, embodied analysis, and system diagnosis that remain largely inaccessible to normative economic and sociological models. Conceptually, Speeds Work marks the explicit integration of the author’s MNO framework and associated operator-based models (including value thresholds, diversity thresholds, and the submergence–indimergence–emergence cycle) into a theory of work understood as relational, world-constituting activity rather than market-mediated output. The notion of “work-integrated relational agency,” introduced here in full scope, functions as a bridge between earlier critiques of meritocracy and later theoretical developments concerning emergence economics, care-centered value regimes, and post-work social organization. Within the overall corpus, this volume serves as both synthesis and pivot: it systematizes insights developed across prior books while simultaneously establishing the conceptual groundwork for subsequent papers and legal-theoretical texts addressing automation, neurodivergence, and institutional responsibility. The work should therefore be read not as an isolated manifesto or autobiographical account, but as a core node within a non-linear, cumulative research corpus. This Author Accepted Manuscript version is provided for scholarly and research purposes. It differs from the published book edition in layout, typesetting, and pagination and does not substitute the commercially published version. About Book: Speed’s Work is one of the most radical and urgent confrontations with the modern concept of labour and its underlying social values.Timothy Speed — autistic artist, labour theorist, and human rights activist — has worked mostly unpaid for 27 years and was caught in a relentless struggle withthe German state. But this is not a personal story of hardship. It raises a fundamental question: What is the true value of work in a society ruled by capitalist logic?At a time when creativity, care, and cultural labour are systematically devalued and replaced by economic metrics, Speed asserts that his work is not marginal butvital. Like 80% of autistic people — and countless cultural workers — he earns nothing.Yet his work contributes to society in ways that markets refuse to recognise: as care, critique, and creative intervention.While the state forces him into poverty and criminalises his refusal to conform to capitalist norms, Speed uses his autistic capacity for pattern recognition to exposeabuses in courts, corporations, and public institutions. His investigations and public interventions reveal structural violence — and bring to light what societyprefers to conceal.With his concept of „work-integrated relational agency,“ Speed proposes a new definition of labour: humane, creative, rooted in relationships, and oriented towardsocial rather than merely economic value. In a world increasingly shaped by