The article explains foundations of critical political economy, especially the cycle of capital accumulation, and argues that this approach is suited for explaining and analyzing the contemporary information economy, knowledge labor, and the Internet economy. The notions of class and surplus value are applied to knowledge labour and Internet usage. Based on Dallas Smythe’s notion of the audience commodity, the concept of the Internet produsage/prosumer commodity is worked out.
christian fuchs, May 2nd 2010
Tags: Antonio Negri, audience commodity, class, Claudia von Werlhof, commons, critical political economy, critique of the political economy of the Internet, Dallas Smythe, Edward P. Thompson, information economy, informational capitalism, Internet, Internet produsage commodity, Internet prosumer commodity, labor, labour, Maria Mies, Michael Hardt, political economy, Slavoj Žižek, surplus value, Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
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You could say that Adorno meant that fictionalization is just a form of escape from bad reality and is therefore apolitical, whereas Žižek says that fiction can tell us something important about reality, that it contains something real, something that is more real than reality. Tarantino’s fiction is double real: It thinks about what could have happened if the reality of the Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews would not have come to an end, and it tells us something about the contemporary reality of our societies.
christian fuchs, September 5th 2009
Tags: Brüno, Inglorious Bastards, Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, Sacha Baron Cohen, Slavoj Žižek, Tarantino and Philosophy, Theodor W. Adorno
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