And it’s not just tech companies like Amazon and Google. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. In this interview, McKenzie Wark explains the ideas and theories behind her book Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? What are the workplace injuries attached to digital labour? We need to understand these injuries as not only physical and mental, but as the social effects of the commodification of information by a ruling class.Ĭapital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? | The full interview What is this new model of exploitation based on information asymmetry? Is this Capitalism as we know it, or something worse?
We produce information all the time, but we don’t own or control it.
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