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We produce information all the time, but we don’t own or control it. What is this new model of exploitation based on information asymmetry? Is this Capitalism as we know it, or something worse?
McKenzie Wark (she/her) is the author of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic and contemporary theorists, Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control—and contest—it.
We produce information all the time, but we don’t own or control it. What is this new model of exploitation based on information asymmetry? Is this Capitalism as we know it, or something worse?
McKenzie Wark (she/her) is the author of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic and contemporary theorists, Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control—and contest—it.
