[Commlist] New book: Digital objects, digital subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

New book publication:


*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 by the University of Westminster 
Press <https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk>

https//www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29 
<https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29/>

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book29


Those based in London (or near) with free diaries may also be interested 
in a roundtable launch event today featuring contributors at 32-38 Wells 
Street ,the University of Westminster. To register and full details see 
eventbrite 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-objects-digital-subjects-politics-labour-and-capitalism-in-the-age-of-big-data-tickets-54967707894>.

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