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Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?


Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?

Hardback by Wark, McKenzie

Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?

£14.99

ISBN:
9781788735308
Publication Date:
8 Oct 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 22 - 23 May 2024
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?

Description

In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we're living in is more dystopian than the techno utopias of the Silicon Valley imagination? And, if this is the case, how do we find a way out? Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyse this new world of information, but the ones to change it, too. A follow-up to their groundbreaking A Hacker Manifesto, Wark takes us on a tour of our information age. Drawing on the writings of the Situationists and a range of contemporary theorists, they offer a vast panorama of the contemporary condition and the classes that control it.

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