ISBN:
9780692598443
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 236 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Betancourt, Michael, 1970 - The critique of digital capitalism
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
E-Business
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Kapitalismus
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Kritik
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Capitalism Social aspects
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Capitalism Social aspects
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Information society
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Information society
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Information technology Political aspects
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Information technology Political aspects
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Information technology Social aspects
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Information technology Social aspects
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Internet Social aspects
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Internet Social aspects
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Online-Publikation
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Sammlung
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Digitale Revolution
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Kapitalismus
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Systemkritik
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Digitalisierung
Abstract:
Anything that can be automated, will be. The “magic” that digital technology has brought us — self-driving cars, Bitcoin, high frequency trading, internet of things, social networking, mass surveillance, the 2009 housing bubble — has not been considered ideologically. The Critique of Digital Capitalism identifies how digital technology has captured contemporary society in a reification of capitalist priorities. The theory proposed in this book is the description of how digital capitalism as an ideologically “invisible” framework is realized in technology. Written as a series of articles between 2003 and 2015, it provides a broad critical scope for understanding the inherent demands of capitalist protocols for expansion without constraint (regardless of social, legal or ethical limits) that are increasingly being realized as autonomous systems no longer dependent on human labor or oversight and implemented without social discussion of their impacts. The digital illusion of infinite resources, infinite production, and no costs appears as an “end to scarcity,” whereby digital production supposedly eliminates costs and makes everything equally available to everyone. This fantasy of production without consumption hides the physical costs and real-world impacts of these technologies.The critique introduced in this book develops from basic questions about how digital technologies directly change the structure of society: why is “Digital Rights Management” not only the dominant “solution” for distributing digital information, but also the only option being considered? During the burst of the “Housing Bubble” burst 2009, why were the immaterial commodities being traded of primary concern, but the actual physical assets and the impacts on the people living in them generally ignored? How do surveillance (pervasive monitoring) and agnotology coincide as mutually reinforcing technologies of control and restraint? If technology makes the assumptions of its society manifest as instrumentality — then what ideology is being realized as the digital computer? This final question animates the critical framework this analysis proposes.Digital capitalism is a dramatically new configuration of the historical dynamics of production, labor and consumption that results in a new variant of historical capitalism. This contemporary, globalized network of production and distribution ...
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