Cyber Marx

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252067959

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Cyber-Marx by Nick Dyer-Witheford Pdf

In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another. Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771132220

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Cyber-Proletariat by Nick Dyer-Witheford Pdf

The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighborhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization. Dyer-Witheford investigates how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotization. At the same time, he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements.

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford,Atle Mikkola Kjøsen,James Steinhoff
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 0745338607

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Inhuman Power by Nick Dyer-Witheford,Atle Mikkola Kjøsen,James Steinhoff Pdf

The past several years have brought staggering advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. And Marxist analysis has to keep up: while machines were always central to Marxist analysis, modern AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Inhuman Power explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI through three approaches, each using the lens of a different Marxist theoretical concept. While the idea of widespread AI tends to be celebrated as much as questioned, a deeper analysis of its reach and potential produces a more complex and disturbing picture than has been identified. Inhuman Power argues that on its current trajectory, AI is likely to render humanity obsolete and that the only way to prevent it is a communist revolution.

Author : Joshua Raulerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846319723

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Singularities by Joshua Raulerson Pdf

Amid the seemingly exponential advancement of technology and the increasingly portentous implications of its continued development and proliferation, many futurists speculate about an imminent historical threshold when the nature of human existence will be forever changed—the Singularity. In Singularities, Joshua Raulerson mounts a wide-ranging study of the Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, drawing science fiction texts into a complex dialogue with digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related areas of our high-tech postmodernity. By doing so, he shows how the Singularity greatly shapes many of our contemporary anxieties and aspirations.

Author : Alessandra Mezzadri
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785274510

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Marx in the Field by Alessandra Mezzadri Pdf

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of the Marxian method to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis. Crucially, many of the contributions expand the scope of Marxian analysis by combining its insights with those of other intellectual traditions, including radical feminisms, critical realism and postcolonial studies. The book defines the possibilities and challenges of fieldwork guided by Marxian analysis, including those emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection takes a global approach to the study of development and of contemporary capitalism. While some essays focus on themes and geographical areas of long-term concern for international development – like informal or rural poverty and work across South Asia, Southern and West Africa, or South America – others focus instead on actors benefitting from the development process - like regional exporters, larger farmers, and traders – or on unequal socio-economic outcomes across richer and emerging economies and regions – including Gulf countries, North America, Southern Europe, or Post-Soviet Central and Eastern Europe. Some essays explore global processes cutting across the world economy, connecting multiple regions, actors and inequalities. While some of the contributions focus on classic Marxian tropes in the study of contemporary capitalism – like class, labour and working conditions, agrarian change, or global commodity chains and prices – others aim at demonstrating the relevance of the Marxian method beyond its traditional boundaries – for instance, for exploring the interplays between food, nutrition and poverty; the links between social reproduction, gender and homework; the features of migration and refugees regimes, tribal chieftaincy structures or prison labour; or the dynamics structuring global surrogacy. Overall, through the analysis of an extremely varied set of concrete settings and cases, this book illustrates the extraordinary insights we can gain by bringing Marx in the field.

Author : Gary T. Marx
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226285917

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Windows Into the Soul by Gary T. Marx Pdf

In Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx sums up a lifetime of work on issues of surveillance and social control by disentangling and parsing the empirical richness of watching and being watched. Ultimately, Marx argues, recognizing complexity and asking the right questions is essential to bringing light and accountability to the darker, more iniquitous corners of our emerging surveillance society.

Author : 刘敬东,郇庆治,陆俊
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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国外马克思主义思潮评介 by 刘敬东,郇庆治,陆俊 Pdf

本书内容包括：早期西方马克思主义、法兰克福学派、存在主义的马克思主义、东欧新马克思主义、新实证主义的马克思主义、结构主义的马克思主义、分析的马克思主义、英国新马克思主义、西方马克思主义空间理论等。

Author : Steve Wright
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0745399916

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Storming Heaven by Steve Wright Pdf

Storming Heave in Steve Wright's unsurpassed study of Italian autonomist Marxism. This new edition remains the only book to examine Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in teh anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. First developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others, workerism, or 'orperaismo', includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, all of which are still practised today by workers across the world. This edition includes a new chapter looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002.

Author : Richard J. F. Day
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 1897071035

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Gramsci is Dead by Richard J. F. Day Pdf

Richard Day argues that most contemporary radical social movements do not strive to take econtrol of the state. Instead, they attempt to develop new forms of self-organisation that can run in parallel with, or as alternatives to, existing forms of social, political and economic organisation.

Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317227830

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Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century by Verity Burgmann Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in developing countries, militant new labour movements are emerging. Drawing upon insights in anti-determinist Marxian perspectives, Verity Burgmann shows how working-class resistance is not futile, as protagonists of globalization often claim. She identifies eight characteristics of globalization harmful to workers and describes and analyses how they have responded collectively to these problems since 1990 and especially this century. With case studies from around the world, including Greece since 2008, she pays particular attention to new types of labour movement organization and mobilization that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations or political institutions to change. Aging and less agile manifestations of the labour movement decline while new expressions of working-class organization and mobilization arise to better battle with corporate globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, globalization, political economy, Marxism and sociology of work.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317364481

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Reading Marx in the Information Age by Christian Fuchs Pdf

Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134747061

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Digital Labour and Karl Marx by Christian Fuchs Pdf

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190691486

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Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey Pdf

Prologue -- The visualisation of capital as value in motion -- Capital, the book -- Money as the representation of value -- Anti-value: the theory of devaluation -- Prices without values -- The question of technology -- The space and time of value -- The production of value regimes -- The madness of economic reason -- Coda

Author : Dr. Robert F. Mills ,Dr. Juan Lopez Jr
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781911218265

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ICCWS 2017 12th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security by Dr. Robert F. Mills ,Dr. Juan Lopez Jr Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004291393

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Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by Anonim Pdf

This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.