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Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis: 215x135 mm, weight: 407 g
  • Serija: Digital Barricades
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745334040
  • ISBN-13: 9780745334042
  • Formatas: Hardback, 256 pages, aukštis x plotis: 215x135 mm, weight: 407 g
  • Serija: Digital Barricades
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745334040
  • ISBN-13: 9780745334042

Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation.

Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotisation. At the same time he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements; contemporary struggles are cast in the blue glow of the computer screen.

Cyber-Proletariat brings heterodox Marxist analysis to bear on modern technological developments. The result will be indispensable to both social theorists and hacktivists alike and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how Silicon Valley shapes the way we live today.



The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to the information highway’s brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighborhoods in Detroit. InCyber-Proletariat, Nick Dyer-Witheford shows the dark side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization. He reveals how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers and how class dominates everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotization. At the same time he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements, casting contemporary economic and social struggles in the blue glow of the computer screen.
Cyber-Proletariat brings Marxist analysis to bear on a range of modern informational technologies. The result is a book indispensable to social theorists and hacktivists alike and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how Silicon Valley shapes the way we live today.

Recenzijos

'Tracks the eddies and flows of the perfect storm that is contemporary capitalism. This panoramic work reveals the relentless force of material destruction and brutal violence concealed by the sleek surfaces of digital culture' -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester, and author of Malign Velocities 'Teases out the tensions between new communisation and autonomist Marxist theories to portray the struggles of workers along the entire global capitalist commodity chain' -- Dorothy Kidd, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco 'A follow up to the classic Cyber-Marx with a synoptic view of the relationship between the poles of the contemporary global proletariat ... written with Dyer-Witherford's well-known eloquence and passion' -- George Caffentzis, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine 'This accessible, well-written book makes for fascinating reading ... High recommended' -- Choice 'Accessible ... engrossing ... very much worth a read' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

Series Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 Proletariat
1(18)
2 Vortex
19(20)
3 Cybernetic
39(21)
4 Silicon
60(21)
5 Circulation
81(21)
6 Mobile
102(22)
7 Globe
124(23)
8 Cascade
147(21)
9 Aftermath
168(20)
10 Front
188(18)
Bibliography 206(30)
Index 236
Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is author of Cyber-Marx (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play (McGill-Queen's, 2003), Games of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Cyber-Proletariat (Pluto, 2015), and the co-author of Inhuman Power (Pluto, 2019).