VOLUME 1(4) • 2013
THE THESIS OF COGNITIVE CAPITALISM. NEW RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. AN INTRODUCTION
ABSTRACT. This Special Issue, The Thesis of Cognitive Capitalism. New Research Perspectives, proposes a set of contributions that presents some of the research lines organized around the thesis of cognitive capitalism, a project that insists upon re-reading the historical development of the capital/..
KNOWLEDGE VALORIZATION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
ABSTRACT. This work subscribes to approaches that defend the idea of a rupture in the long-term dynamic of capitalism. This rupture it is linked to the passage of the industrial capitalism to a new historical system of accumulation. The cognitive division of work supposes a new logic of valorization..
INSTABILITY AND UNSUSTAINABILITY OF COGNITIVE CAPITALISM: RECONSIDERATION FROM A POST-KEYNESIAN PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. Cognitive capitalism is a useful concept that elucidates the state of contemporary economic system. The 2008 financial crisis that followed the global recession and the slow economic recovery illustrate the instability and unsustainability of this regime. This paper offers an examination o..
RENT AND SUBJECTIVITY IN NEOLIBERAL COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
ABSTRACT. This paper aims to provide analysis of “salaried-rentier”. This figure stems from a double process: the “individualization of salaries” and the “socialization of capital”. We will focus on the understanding of the double process engendering such a figure and on the machine whose function i..
IS THE CUP OF STRUGGLE ON THE BATTLE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS HALF FULL OR HALF VOID? A QUESTION OF METHOD AND SOME CONCRETE CONSEQUENCES
ABSTRACT. Current literature has underscored new enclosures of the commons be they traditional or new. The default of these critic of cognitive capitalism is not their lack of accuracy. But one has to stress the priority of the movement of disclosure that has become n a fundamental condition of valu..
CONSUMPTION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM: COMMODITY RIOTS AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT OF CONSUMPTION
ABSTRACT. We challenge the prevalent opinion that consumption does not seem to matter as much as production and defy the fetishism of industrial work. We explore the implications of the premise that under conditions of cognitive capitalism consumption dictates what production does, when and how. We ..
COGNITIVE BIO-CAPITALISM, SOCIAL (RE)PRODUCTION AND THE PRECARITY TRAP: WHY NOT BASIC INCOME?
ABSTRACT. Nowadays, there is a link between the theoretical framework which defines the current economic and organizational paradigm (we call it “cognitive-biocapitalism”) and the issue of “social (re)production”. This latter was already analyzed and investigated by the materialist feminism of the S..
RACE AND KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM
ABSTRACT: What does racism mean and how does racism work in contemporary capitalism? Or, which new and unique articulations are today assumed by racialization and congnitization of work? Trying to answer these questions means to deeply investigate both capitalist valorization and the processes throu..
TURNING CONTRADICTIONS INTO SUBJECTS: THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF UNIVERSITY ASSESSMENT
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the conceptual relationship between the notion of assessment and the law of value. Framed within the theoretical context of the Grundrisse, it locates the crisis of the law of value in the transition between industrial and cognitive capitalism. In this context, universi..
COGNITIVE-CULTURAL PRODUCTION, DIGITAL LABOUR AND THE NEW FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE. A CONVERSATION WITH ALLEN J. SCOTT
ABSTRACT. What is the role played by cognitive-cultural production? What are the meanings and the stakes of the “feminization” of labor? What is the meaning of “Digital Taylorism”? Is the metropolis today a functional substitute for the factory in the context of industrial capitalism? What is the ro..