Biodun Iginla

The Desiring Machines of Capital and Technology

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Produktbeschreibung

Capitalism and technology, working for each other, like the two-headed monster Janus and also like a transnational condominium, have both created various machines that enslave us all by transforming human life on earth. What follows is a brief historical sketch of how capital and technology brought this about. Beginning in the mid-1970s through the early 1980s in the West, the capitalistic process assigned value to information (and knowledge): that is, capital valued information as a form of labor and merchandise. Briefly, within the capitalistic process, what is valued is what can be exchanged: that is, a form of merchandise is what has exchange-value. Once this process began to value words and ideas, as distinct from material goods, the new time of capital, armed with the new labor-power of (information), began to free itself from the time of concrete labor. As a result, capitalism became less concerned with organizing space into functional sectors than with subsuming the totality of time under its own laws of unequal exchange.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9783659859175
• ISBN-10: 3659859176
• Artikelnr.: 44821185

Autorenporträt

Biodun Iginla is a news media analyst for major news organizations and the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books. He divides his time among New York, London, and Minneapolis.