[Commlist] New Book: Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the 
Age of Big Data

Edited by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs


This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of 
digital subjects and objects and Big Data Capitalism after a digital 
turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists 
assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of 
knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked 
activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital 
technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, 
networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the 
surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied 
interdisciplinary assessments of such claims - in theory and via 
dialogue - and of digital’s impact and the potentials, pitfalls, limits 
and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether 
computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous 
datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research 
or lead to new horizons in theory and society.


CONTRIBUTORS: Joanna Boehnert, Elisabetta Brighi, David Chandler, Robert 
Cowley, Jodi Dean, Christian Fuchs, Paolo Gerbaudo, Peter Goodwin, Kylie 
Jarrett, Anastasia Kavada, Phoebe V. Moore, Antonio Negri, Jack Linchuan 
Qui, Paul Rekret, Paulina Tambakaki


CONTENTS

Introduction: Big Data Capitalism - Politics, Activism, and Theory

Section I: Digital Capitalism and Big Data Capitalism 2. Digital 
Governance in the Anthropocene: The Rise of the Correlational Machine 3. 
Beyond Big Data Capitalism, Towards Dialectical Digital Modernity: 
Reflections on David Chandler’s Chapter 4. Karl Marx in the Age of Big 
Data Capitalism 5. What is at Stake in the Critique of Big Data? 
Reflections on Christian Fuchs’s Chapter 6. Seeing Like a Cyborg? The 
Innocence of Posthuman Knowledge 7. Posthumanism as a Spectrum: 
Reflections on Paul Rekret’s Chapter

Section II: Digital Labour 8.Through the Reproductive Lens: Labour and 
Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy 9. Contradictions in 
the Twitter Social Factory: Reflections on Kylie Jarrett’s Chapter 10. 
E(a)ffective Precarity, Control and Resistance in the Digitalised 
Workplace 11. Beyond Repression: Reflections on Phoebe Moore’s Chapter 
12.Goodbye iSlave: Making Alternative Subjects Through Digital Objects 
13. Wage-Workers, Not Slaves: Reflections on Jack Qiu’s Chapter

Section III: Digital Politics 14. Critique or Collectivity? 
Communicative Capitalism and the Subject of Politics 15. Subjects, 
Contexts and Modes of Critique: Reflections on Jodi Dean’s Chapter 16. 
The Platform Party: The Transformation of Political – Organisation in 
the Era of Big Data 17. The Movement Party – Winning Elections and 
Transforming Democracy in a Digital Era: Reflections on Paolo Gerbaudo’s 
Chapter 18. The Appropriation of Fixed Capital: A Metaphor? 19. 
Appropriation of Digital Machines and Appropriation of Fixed Capital as 
the Real Appropriation of Social Being: Reflections on Toni Negri’s 
Chapter. The Editors and the Contributors. Index.


Published open access and in print paperback and hardback by the 
University of Westminster Press

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29


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