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Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces / Sabine Pfeiffer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: X-Texte zu Kultur und GesellschaftPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839458938
  • 3839458935
  • 3732858936
  • 9783732858934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.12/2 23
LOC classification:
  • HB501
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Digital Capitalism Revisited--again? -- 3. The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism -- 4. Transformation and the Productive Forces -- 5. The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism -- 6. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New? -- 7. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications -- 8. The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations -- 9. Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force? -- Bibliography -- List of Figures
Summary: Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Digital Capitalism Revisited--again? -- 3. The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism -- 4. Transformation and the Productive Forces -- 5. The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism -- 6. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New? -- 7. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications -- 8. The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations -- 9. Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force? -- Bibliography -- List of Figures

Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.

In English.

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082, 650

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