Post by: Frederick H. Pitts
Beyond the Fragment: The Postoperaist Reception of Marx’s Fragment on Machines and its Relevance Today
Abstract
This paper critiques the purposes to which Marx’s Fragment on Machines is put in postoperaist thought. I suggest postoperaist readings wield influence on contemporary left thinking, via postcapitalism, accelerationism and ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’. Changes in labour lead proponents to posit a crisis of measurability and an incipient communism. ...
capital, machines, marx, marxism, neue marx lektüre, postoperaism, technology
Creative Industries, Value Theory and Michael Heinrich’s New Reading of Marx
Abstract: This article utilises the new reading of Marx found in the work of Michael Heinrich to analyse the creative industries. It considers the role played in the production of value by the labour that takes place in the sphere of circulation. The specific focus is on creative industries such ...