marx digital
198507467
Karl Marx, Digital Technology, and Liberation Theology
Since 2011 Peter McLaren and Petar Jandric have written a dozen of dialogic articles focused to critical pedagogy in the age of information technology and liberation theology. These articles are packed with Peter McLaren's interpretations of Karl Marx in various contexts, yet they never focused explicitly to McLaren's Marxist thought. In this article we present a collection of Peter McLaren's interpretations of Karl Marx written during 8 years of working together. Developed and published in various contexts, insights in this article do not present a complete overview of Peter McLaren's understanding of Marxism. Yet, focusing to extremely radically different themes of information technology and liberation theology, Peter McLaren's views present a rich source for understanding Marxist theory in the 21st century.
Beijing International Review of Education
Peter L Mclaren Petar Jandric
214008207
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Christian Fuchs
141462895
Digital Labour and Karl Marx
1. Introduction 2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory 3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx 4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today 5. Capitalism or Information Society 6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT Related Mineral Extraction 7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour 8. The Division of Labour of the New Imperialism: Work in the Indian Software Industry 9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and its Context 10. Tayloristic, Housewifised Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work 11. Theorising Digital Labour on Social Media 12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work The Occupy Movement as a New Working Class Movement? Social Media as Working Class Social Media? Glossary
Christian Fuchs
11215841
Revisiting Marx's Value Theory: A Critical Response to Analyses of Digital Prosumption
In their assessment of value creation through prosumption and other activities related to the use of digital technologies, despite significant differences, Fuchs (2010) and Arvidsson and Colleoni (2012) misinterpret Marx's value theory. Through their analyses, a totalizing or new form of capitalism is said to have emerged, but these, I argue, entail demonstrably idealist theorizations. The end result is that these authors occlude more than they clarify in their debates concerning value, exploitation, and the role played by digital technologies. However, once we understand the precision needed to apply Marx's complex theory including his conceptualization of "labor power" and the distinction he makes between "productive" and "unproductive" labor it becomes apparent that a more careful reading of Marx is a priority.
Inf. Soc.
Edward Comor
59057870
The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo
In this chapter, I discuss some of the foundations for a digital labour theory of value, namely the concepts of time (Section 2) productive labour (Section 3) rent (Section 4) and fetishism (Section 5).1
Christian Fuchs
147832357
Book Review: Digital Labour and Karl Marx
In this book, Fuchs sets out to elucidate Marx's theory of labour and exploitation within the capitalist mode of production and then to apply this theory in an analysis of the role of labour within the various stages of production that result in the delivery of digital media. He claims in particular that only such a theoretical perspective allows us to grasp (a) the way in which users of social media are being exploited to produce surplus value for the owners of services such as Facebook and (b) the need for a classic Marxist proletarian revolution within the field of social media to end this exploitation and replace it with what he calls 'a communications commons' Fuchs places his project within the renewed interest in Marxism inspired by the 2008 financial crisis and explicitly sees it as a continuation of the debate between Cultural Studies and The Political Economy of Communications. Certainly, the book, in its case studies of the labour process and the relations of production within the various stages of global production that underpin, within the International Division of Labour (IDL) our usage of digital devices and network services, serves as a useful reminder, to those with a more benign, idealist view of the digital information revolution, of the very real material costs involved and who bears them. A reminder unfortunately that cannot be reiterated often enough. However, one does not, I think, require the very narrow and dogmatic version of Marxist theory that Fuchs deploys to get this point. Much writing on the Left in response to the 2008 crisis has talked in terms of a return to Marxism. After the years in the wilderness of neo liberal hegemony, the rumbling of capitalist crisis is heard again, and now, perhaps, at last it can be claimed that 'our time has come' One more circumnavigation of the walls of capitalism blowing the trumpets of proletarian revolution and the gates to an unalienated paradise will open to us. The sense of anger and the widespread economic and social distress are, of course, very real. But it is the idea that we should go back to something with which I want to take issue. Particularly to a set of theories of both economy and polity designed for very different conditions. What is required is not a going back but a going beyond which takes into account the very real theoretical inadequacies of Marxism and the lessons learnt by political economists, and citizens at large, from analysing and experiencing 150 years of capitalist development and attempts at socialist transformation. Indeed, in my judgement, the sad irony is that both Marxism and neo liberalism suffer from the same failure, born of the same 19th century model of the world. Both systems of thought believe that the economy is a simple, monolithic system and that therefore there 612543 MCS0010.1177/0163443715612543Media, Culture SocietyBook Review research article2015
Nicholas Garnham
53859114
Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Marisol Sandoval Katarina Giritli Nygren Katarina Lindblad Gidlund Sebastian Sevignani
156507179
Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Robert Prey
143241229
Cognitive Capitalism, by Yann Moulier Boutang. Digital Labor and Karl Marx, by Christian Fuchs
The expanding role of digital information technologies in our everyday economic (not to mention social, cognitive, emotional) lives feels awfully important. Two contributions to the fast expanding literature on the increasing role of communications, information, knowledge, and networks in contemporary capitalism are Yann Moulier Boutang's Cognitive Capitalism and Christian Fuchs's Digital Labor and Karl Marx. Boutang and Fuchs agree that the new informational/communicative forms of production are real production, but they differ in their approach to theorizing the associated exchange value: Boutang rejects the labor theory of value while Fuchs embraces it. Reading these books pushes one to ask: under what relations are ideas the ones we resist and the ones we hold most dear produced and disseminated?
Zoe Sherman
148943354
Marx in the age of digital capitalism. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 80.
Fuchs Christian Mosco Vincent