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Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data
by David Chandler(Editor), Christian Fuchs(Editor)
About the Author
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, and edits the journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. His most recent monograph is Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (2018).
Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist, professor at the University of Westminster, and editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (triple-c.at).
About this book
This volume 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 sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.
Brieft contents
1. Introduction: Big Data Capitalism – Politics, Activism, and Theory
Section I: Digital Capitalism and Big Data Capitalism
2. Digital Governance in the Anthropocene: The Rise of the Correlational Machine
3. Beyond Big Data Capitalism, Towards Dialectical Digital Modernity: Reflections on David Chandler’s Chapter
4. Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism
5. What is at Stake in the Critique of Big Data? Reflections on Christian Fuchs’s Chapter
6. Seeing Like a Cyborg? The Innocence of Posthuman Knowledge
7. Posthumanism as a Spectrum: Reflections on Paul Rekret’s Chapter
Section II: Digital Labour
8. Through the Reproductive Lens: Labour and Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy
9. Contradictions in the Twitter Social Factory: Reflections on Kylie Jarrett’s Chapter
10. E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the -Digitalised Workplace
11. Beyond Repression: Reflections on Phoebe Moore’s Chapter
12. Goodbye iSlave: Making Alternative Subjects Through Digital Objects
13. Wage-Workers, Not Slaves: Reflections on Jack Qiu’s Chapter
Section III: Digital Politics
14. Critique or Collectivity? Communicative Capitalism and the Subject of Politics
15. Subjects, Contexts and Modes of Critique: Reflections on Jodi Dean’s Chapter
16. The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political -Organisation in the Era of Big Data
17. The Movement Party – Winning Elections and Transforming Democracy in a Digital Era: Reflections on Paolo Gerbaudo’s Chapter
18. The Appropriation of Fixed Capital: A Metaphor?
19. Appropriation of Digital Machines and Appropriation of Fixed Capital as the Real Appropriation of Social Being: Reflections on Toni Negri’s Chapter
The Editors and the Contributors
Index
Length: 248 pages
Publisher: University of Westminster Press (January 29, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912656205
ISBN-13: 978-1912656202
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