The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology / Michael Betancourt.

• VerfasserIn: Betancourt, Michael, 1970-
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2016; 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages) :; illustrations, digital, PDF file(s).

Anything that can be automated, will be. The "magic" that digital technology has brought us -- self-driving cars, Bitcoin, high frequency trading, the internet of things, social networking, mass surveillance, the 2009 housing bubble -- has not been considered from an ideological perspectiv...

Table of Contents

• The ideology of automation
• The emergence of immaterial physicality
• The aura of the digital
• The immaterial commodity
• The valorization of the author
• The 'black box' of past experience
• The state of information
• The demands of agnotology=surveillance
• The scarcity of capital
• On immaterialism.