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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Capital and Beyond Part I: Capitalism’s 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 Bourdieu’s 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 Marx’s Capital and Adorno’s 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
