Erscheint: Januar 2027
Buch (Hardcover): Fachbuch
Abstraction and Abjection
Value, Capital, and Digitality Before Computers
Verlag:
Brill Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35834858
EAN: 9789004774896
Erscheint: Januar 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 201.–
Beschreibung
What is the relationship between capitalism and the digital. Is the seamless integration between capital and digitality merely the result of a serendipitous encounter between this mode of production and the invention of the digital computer, or is it possible to identify deeper continuities at work. This book seeks to articulate a materialist answer to this question by drawing on various strands of contemporary Marxist theory to reconceptualise digital technologies and capitalist society as sharing a common logic of abstraction and abjection. It argues that the digital recapitulates specific aspects of capitalist abstraction, manifested as a discretising logic and content-indifferent formalism underpinning both computational machines and the social relations theorised within the Marxian tradition under the concept of value.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Alan Diaz
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)