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Informationen zum Autor McKenzie Wark is best known for a series of books of twenty-first century critical theory, including A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and Capital is Dead . She has also written works that contribute to an alternate history of Marxism, including Leaving the Twentieth Century and Molecular Red . Her survey books on contemporary theory and problems in collaborative knowledge production are General Intellects and Sensoria . She also writes in an autotheoretical style in books such as Dispositions, Philosophy for Spiders, Raving and Love and Money, Sex and Death . She is a professor of media and cultural studies at a university in New York. Klappentext In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we're living in is more dystopian than the techno utopias of the Silicon Valley imagination? And, if this is the case, how do we find a way out? Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyse this new world of information, but the ones to change it, too.A follow-up to their groundbreaking A Hacker Manifesto , Wark takes us on a tour of our information age. Drawing on the writings of the Situationists and a range of contemporary theorists, they offer a vast panorama of the contemporary condition and the classes that control it. Zusammenfassung It's not capitalism! it's not neoliberalism-what if it's something worse?
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McKenzie Wark is best known for a series of books of twenty-first century critical theory, including
A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and
Capital is Dead. She has also written works that contribute to an alternate history of Marxism, including
Leaving the Twentieth Century and
Molecular Red. Her survey books on contemporary theory and problems in collaborative knowledge production are
General Intellects and
Sensoria. She also writes in an autotheoretical style in books such as
Dispositions, Philosophy for Spiders, Raving and
Love and Money, Sex and Death. She is a professor of media and cultural studies at a university in New York.
