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