Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data /

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data /

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This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the 'digital' promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and...

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Other Authors: Fuchs, Christian (Editor), Chandler, David (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Westminster Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political participation > Technological innovations.
Political activists.
Internet > Political aspects.
Internet and activism.
Social Science > Sociology.
Social Science > Sociology > Social Theory.
Political Science > History & Theory.
Cultural studies.
activists.
Participation politique > Innovations.
Internet > Aspect politique.
Cybermilitantisme.
Activistes.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christian Fuchs and David Chandler
  • Section I. Digital capitalism and big data capitalism / Digital governance in the Anthropocene : the rise of the correlational machine / David Chandler
  • Beyond big data capitalism, towards dialectical digital modernity : reflections on David Chandler's chapter ; Karl Marx in the age of big data capitalism / Christian Fuchs
  • What is at stake in the critique of big data? Reflections on Christian Fuch's chapter / David Chandler
  • Seeing like a cyborg? The innocence of posthuman knowledge / Paul Rekret
  • Posthumanism as a spectrum : reflections on Paul Rekret's chapter / Robert Cowley
  • Section II. Digital labour
  • Through the reproductive lens : labour and struggle at the intersection of culture and economy / Kylie Jarrett
  • Contradictions in the Twitter social factory : reflections on Kylie Jarrett's chapter / Joanna Boehnert
  • E(a)ffective precarity, control and resistance in the digitalised workplace / Phoebe V. Moore
  • Beyond repression : reflections on Phoebe Moore's chapter / Elisabetta Brighi
  • Goodbye iSlave : marking alternative subjects through digital objects / Jack Linchuan Qiu
  • Wage-workers, not slaves : reflections on Jack Qiu's chapter / Peter Goodwin
  • Section III. Digital politics
  • Critique or collectivity? Communicative capitalism and the subject of politics / Jodi Dean
  • Subjects, contexts and modes of critique : reflections on Jodi Dean's chapter / Paulina Tambakaki
  • The platform party : the transformation of political organisation in the era of big data / Paolo Gerbaudo
  • The movement party : winning elections and transforming democracy in a digital era : reflections on Paolo Gerbaudo's chapter / Anastasia Kavada
  • The appropriation of fixed capital : a metaphor? / Antonio Negri
  • Appropriation of digital machines and appropriation of fixed capital as the real appropriation of social being : reflections on Toni Negri's chapter / Christian Fuchs.

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