Information is the new commodity | McKenzie Wark
We produce information all the time, but we don’t own or control it. What is this new model of exploitation based on information asymmetry? Is this Capitalism as we know it, or something worse?
McKenzie Wark (she/her) is the author of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic and contemporary theorists, Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control-and contest-it.
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so Chinese workers making the phones are deemed irrelevant? I don't think any of this takes us beyond capitalism.
@shripple2623
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think that she's arguing that the Chinese workers making phones are irrelevant, or e.g. the means of production are useless. She's saying that if there is a group which owns the means of ***organizing*** the means of production, then that group would be able to control the entire chain of value from production to distribution. That they would essentially place themselves on top of the capitalists. Not that capitalists don't exist at the same time.
aren't we all plagiarists? some do that better than others :)
@aanniea
4 жыл бұрын
or just have a bigger audience ... importance is the info comes through
what is plagiarist. and, someone sent me this, by mistake I guess, because I don't understand.
Coming from a guy that has no right to self defense? hahahahha Have fun being locked down over and over again.