"Regimes of Capital in the Post-digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists. With attention to questions about the manner in which the advent of the information age has shaped capitalism, the implications of the post-digital age for social capital, and the possible forms of resistance to the problematic aspects of capitalism, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and social theory with interests in critical theory, capitalist society and digital culture"--
This book examines the current state of capitalism in relation to the advance of ICTs, considering the ways in which the rise of the internet has shaped capitalism or otherwise and the implications of our increasingly digital society for social capital and the possible forms of resistance to the problematic aspects of capitalism.
Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.
With attention to questions about the manner in which the advent of the information age has shaped capitalism, the implications of the post- digital age for social capital, and the possible forms of resistance to the problematic aspects of capitalism, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and social theory with interests in critical theory, capitalist society, and digital culture.
Introduction: Capital and Beyond Part I: Capitalisms New Clothes?
1.
The Age of Resilience;
2. Capital, Or, Information: Affective Labor,
Historical Materialism, and the Convergence of Forces and Relations of
Production;
3. Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Pliroforicene? Regardless, We
Need Gelassenheit;
4. Capital after Vaccinations Part II: Capital in the
Information Age
5. The Invention of the Brain: Artificial Intelligence and
Libidinal Symptomatology;
6. Beyond the Automated Left: On the Autonomy of AI
Ecologies;
7. Information Vectors and the Capitalization of Social Practices;
8. Hacking as a Weapon: Exposing the Underlying Imperfections of Neoliberal
Democracy Through Technology in Mr. Robot Part III: Varieties of Social
Capital
9. Exchanges;
10. Not Quite a Capital but Still Capital Results: An
Ethnographic Critique of Bourdieus Notion of Social Capital;
11. Social
capital in labor relations influenced by digitalization trends;
12. Images in
the Age of Social Media: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Liberalism Part IV:
Capitalism and Its Others
13. Who will take part in knowledge? On the
condition(s) of knowledge socialism;
14. The concept of natural history in
Marxs Capital and Adornos The Idea of Natural History: nature, the cage of
self-preservation and critique of political economy;
15. Capitalism and
Slowness: Resistance or Reterritorialization? The Case of Slow Food
Szymon Wróbel is Professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His books in English include: Deferring the Self and Grammar and Glamor of Cooperation, together with Krzysztof Skonieczny, he is co-editor of two books Atheism Revisited: Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (2020) and Living and Thinking in the Post- Digital World (2021).
Krzysztof Skonieczny is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. He is the author of Immanence and the Animal: A Conceptual Inquiry (2020) and co-editor (with Szymon Wróbel) of Atheism Revisited: Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (2020) and Living and Thinking in the Post- Digital World: Theories, Experiences, Expectations (2021).
