Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data
Editor(s): Chandler, Dave; Fuchs, Christian
Abstract
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.
Table Of Contents
Section I: Digital Capitalism and Big Data Capitalism
- David Chandler: Digital Governance in the Anthropocene: The Rise of the Correlational Machine
- Christian Fuchs: Beyond Big Data Capitalism, Towards Dialectical Digital Modernity: Reflections on David Chandler’s Chapter
- Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism
- David Chandler: What is at Stake in the Critique of Big Data? Reflections on Christian Fuchs’s Chapter
- Paul Rekret: Seeing Like a Cyborg? The Innocence of Posthuman Knowledge
- Robert Cowley: Posthumanism as a Spectrum: Reflections on Paul Rekret’s Chapter
Section II: Digital Labour
- Kylie Jarrett: Through the Reproductive Lens: Labour and Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy
- Joanna Boehnert: Contradictions in the Twitter Social Factory: Reflections on Kylie Jarrett’s Chapter
- Phoebe V. Moore: E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised Workplace
- Elisabetta Brighi: Beyond Repression: Reflections on Phoebe Moore’s Chapter
- Jack Linchuan Qiu: Goodbye iSlave: Making Alternative Subjects Through Digital Objects
- Peter Goodwin: Wage-Workers, Not Slaves: Reflections on Jack Qiu’s Chapter
Section III: Digital Politics
- Jodi Dean: Critique or Collectivity? Communicative Capitalism and the Subject of Politics
- Paulina Tambakaki: Subjects, Contexts and Modes of Critique: Reflections on Jodi Dean’s Chapter
- Paolo Gerbaudo: The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political Organisation in the Era of Big Data
- Anastasia Kavada: The Movement Party – Winning Elections and Transforming Democracy in a Digital Era: Reflections on Paolo Gerbaudo’s Chapter
- Antonio Negri: The Appropriation of Fixed Capital: A Metaphor?
- Christian Fuchs: Appropriation of Digital Machines and Appropriation of Fixed Capital as the Real Appropriation of Social Being: Reflections on Toni Negri’s Chapter
Preferred Citation
Chandler, Dave; Fuchs, Christian (Hg.): Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data. London: University of Westminster Press 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3684.
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