Reading Marx In The Information Age

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317364498

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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 : 603 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Capitalism and mass media
ISBN : 0745339999

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Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by Christian Fuchs Pdf

In order to fight capitalism in the digital age, we must understand Marx!

Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Gary T. Marx
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319632872

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Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age by Ranabir Samaddar Pdf

This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. Those who study Marx, particularly in the West, often lack an understanding of post-colonial realities; conversely, however, those who fashion post-colonial theory often have an inadequate understanding of Marx. Many think that Marx is not relevant to critique postcolonial realities and the legacy of Marx seldom reaches the post-colonial countries directly. This work will read Marx in the contemporary post-colonial condition and elaborate the current dynamics of post-colonial capitalism. It does this by analysing contemporary post-colonial history and politics in the framework of inter-relations between the three categories of class, people, and postcolonial transformation. Examining the structure of power in postcolonial countries and revisiting the revolutionary theory of dual power in that context, it appreciates and explains the transformative potentialities of Marx in relation to post-colonial condition.

Author : Paul E Corcoran,Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349171484

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Before Marx: Socialism and Communism in France, 1830–48 by Paul E Corcoran,Christian Fuchs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Author : Christian Fuchs,Eran Fisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137478573

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Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age by Christian Fuchs,Eran Fisher Pdf

This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610395700

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Pdf

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

Author : Michael Heinrich
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583672914

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An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich Pdf

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism as inherently unstable. And of course, there are those, like Michael Heinrich, who have seen the value of Marx all along, and are in a unique position to explain the intricacies of Marx's thought. Heinrich's modern interpretation of Capital is now available to English-speaking readers for the first time. It has gone through nine editions in Germany, is the standard work for Marxist study groups, and is used widely in German universities. The author systematically covers all three volumes of Capital and explains all the basic aspects of Marx's critique of capitalism in a way that is clear and concise. He provides background information on the intellectual and political milieu in which Marx worked, and looks at crucial issues beyond the scope of Capital, such as class struggle, the relationship between capital and the state, accusations of historical determinism, and Marx's understanding of communism. Uniquely, Heinrich emphasizes the monetary character of Marx's work, in addition to the traditional emphasis on the labor theory of value, this highlighting the relevance of Capital to the age of financial explosions and implosions.

Author : Robert D. McChesney,Ellen Meiksins Wood,John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0853459894

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Capitalism and the Information Age by Robert D. McChesney,Ellen Meiksins Wood,John Bellamy Foster Pdf

Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies. Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of "globalization." How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135898823

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Internet and Society by Christian Fuchs Pdf

In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new ICTs. Fuchs highlights how new forms of cooperation and competition are advanced and supported by the internet in subsystems of society and also discusses opportunities and risks of the information society.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000750492

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Marxism by Christian Fuchs Pdf

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles. Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication; and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx.

Author : Andy Merrifield
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678817

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Marx, Dead and Alive by Andy Merrifield Pdf

A contemporary interrogation of Marx’s masterwork Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the economic and political hand. And yet, contends Andy Merrifield, as our modern lives become ever more mist-enveloped, the works of Marx can help us penetrate the fog. In Marx, Dead and Alive—a book that begins and ends beside Marx’s recently violated London graveside—Merrifield makes a spirited case for a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with fascinating examples of literature and history, from Shakespeare and Beckett, to the Luddites and the Black Panthers, Merrifield demonstrates how Marx can reveal our individual lives to us within a collective perspective—and within a historical continuum. Who we are now hinges on who we once were—and who we might become. This, at a time when our value-system is undergoing core “post-truth” meltdown.