Nick Dyer-Witheford

Biokommunismus. Zwischen Macht und Katastrophe

Einleitung: Katastrophische Kontexte Dieser Essay ist ein Prospekt für den Biokommunismus, einen Kommunismus, der aus den Katastrophen entsteht, die das Kapital heute im Bios, dem Bereich des Lebens selbst, anrichtet. Nach einer kurzen Darstellung der Theorie, die seiner Terminologie zugrunde […]

Biokommunismus. Zwischen Macht und Katastrophe

Big Tech in Capital’s Time of Troubles: Theoretical Notes

Introduction: Outside the Room On July 29 2020, in a sweltering Washington heatwave, a roomful of US congresspeople, most, but not all, masked against the rampant coronavirus, interrogated the virtually-present CEOs of four of the most highly market-valued companies on

Big Tech in Capital’s Time of Troubles: Theoretical Notes

Digital labour, species-becoming and the global worker

This paper places digital labour in the context of recently revived interest in the young Marx’s concept of ‘species-being’ (Gatungswesen). Cryptically and fragmentarily announced in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, but largely abandoned in Marx’s later work, the

Digital labour, species-becoming and the global worker

Contemporary schools of thought and the problem of Labour Algorithms

Despite the fall of actually-existing socialism, the idea of computerized economic planning continued to be developed by small groups of theorists, who have advanced its conceptual scope further than anything attempted by Soviet cyberneticians. Two schools have been of particular

Contemporary schools of thought and the problem of Labour Algorithms

Cyber-Proletariat: Interview with Nick Dyer-Witheford

Gavin Mueller: Your 1999 book Cyber-Marx is an excellent summary of autonomist Marxism and post-operaismo as well as an argument for its relevance for struggles against a capitalism increasingly suffused with information and communication technology. With Cyber-Proletariat, you are less

Cyber-Proletariat: Interview with Nick Dyer-Witheford

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