
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism
An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism
Mariano Zukerfeld(Author)
University of Westminster Press
Published on 26. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-911534-24-2 (ISBN)
Description
Author Mariano Zukerfeld was awarded the best book prize by The Association ESOCITE (Asociacion Latinamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Cience y la Tecnologia).
"the book is a refreshing, dynamic approach leading back into discussions which have been neglected during the last 20 years." -https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism's totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.
"the book is a refreshing, dynamic approach leading back into discussions which have been neglected during the last 20 years." -https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism's totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-911534-24-2 (9781911534242)
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Person
Dr. Mariano Zukerfeld is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, Lecturer in Sociology of ICTs at Buenos Aires University (UBA) and Head of the Technology, Capitalism and Society team (e-TCS) at the Science Technology and Society
Center, Maimonides University.
Center, Maimonides University.