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- Analyzes the emergence of processes of digital production by using instruments of morphodynamics
- Presents recent research on the dynamics of digital work
- Proposes a historical epistemology based on concepts of virtual and actual and on the criticism of the political economy of digital production
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Labour power, however, has not disappeared. Without drivers, Uber cannot connect customers on its platform; without searches on its browser, Google grinds to a halt; without us, Facebook or Instagram is desert. Labour power is the dwarf hidden inside the puppet of technology that allows algorithms to be intelligent and make the biggest profits in the history of capitalism.
The invisible centrality of labour power is the political enigma of our times. Today a new account of the theory of labour power is needed more than ever in order to understand the political economy of digital capitalism on new grounds.
Unlike a long tradition in the history of work, labour power is not only the work or the data it produces, but a potency that does not coincide with its current commodification. The actuality of labour power does not exhaust the virtuality that can be actualised by its faculty. Even when reduced to a commodity, labour power does not exhaust the potency of its being otherwise.
Immersed in the constant propaganda that boosts the latest technological inventions, we neglect the fact that this wealth is produced by us and that it could be ours precisely because it is a part of our potential to be other than what we are at present.
This book is a vibrant invitation to consider the fact that we are always connected with the potency thatis constantly at work in our life. If this were not the case, we would not be alive. If we do not strive to become consciously and collectively active, we will never know.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Education, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Roberto Ciccarelli
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labour Power
Book Subtitle: Virtual and Actual in Digital Production
Authors: Roberto Ciccarelli
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70862-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70861-0Published: 05 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70864-1Published: 06 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70862-7Published: 04 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Political Economy/Economic Systems