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What are the workplace injuries attached to digital labour? We need to understand these injuries as not only physical and mental, but as the social effects of the commodification of information by a ruling class.
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.
What are the workplace injuries attached to digital labour? We need to understand these injuries as not only physical and mental, but as the social effects of the commodification of information by a ruling class.
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.
