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UNINA9910996538103321 |
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Autore |
Satgar Vishwas |
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Titolo |
Digital Capitalism and Its Limits : Technotopia, Power and Risk |
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Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2025 |
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©2025 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Democratic Marxisms Series ; ; v.8 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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FRONT COVER -- DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND ITS LIMITS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: RISKS AND LIMITS OF DIGITAL TECHNOTOPIA -- CHAPTER 1: The Dangerous Contradictions of Digital Capitalism -- CHAPTER 2: Mass Digital Surveillance and National Security Technotopias -- CHAPTER 3: Libraries, Digital Equity and the Future of Reading -- CHAPTER 4: The Riddle of Digital Capitalism Regulation -- PART TWO: POWER AND DIGITISING THE LABOUR PROCESS -- CHAPTER 5: Digital Platforms and Emerging Forms of Worker Struggles -- CHAPTER 6: Digital Platforms, Class Power and Control in the Waste Pickers' Economy -- CHAPTER 7: Technological Restructuring in the Automotive Vehicle Sector -- PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY FUTURES BEYOND TECHNOTOPIA -- CHAPTER 8: Commons Economics -- CHAPTER 9: Digital Degrowth as Decolonisation -- CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Digital capitalism promises progresss, development and an end to the planetary crisis. Through a Marxist lens, contributors interrogate the implications of heightened technological innovation on employment, weak market democracies, climate change and labour power dynamics and alternatives for emancipatory futures in a digitalised world. |
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