Luis Suarez-Villa

Technocapitalism

A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism

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Produktbeschreibung

A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativity

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781439900420
• ISBN-10: 1439900426
• Artikelnr.: 26157235

Autorenporträt

Luis Suarez-Villa is a Professor in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in the political economy of technology, development, and corporate capitalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Experimentalism 
Society as Laboratory 
Accumulation and Power 
Experimentalism as System 
Conclusion
Creativity as a Commodity 
Creativity versus Commodification 
Utility and Value 
Reproduction and Commodification 
Commodification as Process 
Conclusion
Networks as Mediators 
Network Extent 
Hierarchies and Control 
Power and Inequity 
Change over Change 
Conclusion
Decomposing the Corporation 
Networks versus the Corporation 
Decomposition and Power 
Pathology of Decomposition 
Conclusion
Experimentalist Organizations 
Systematized Research Regimes 
Collaboration and Power 
Pathological Pursuits 
Conclusion
Challenges 
Downfall of Public Democracy 
Hegemony of Corporatism 
Empowering Creativity 
Rediscovering the Social
Notes 
Index