Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces

Pfeiffer, Sabine

doi:10.1515/9783839458938

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 50 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…When we describe these as 'new' , we do not mean they were produced by digital technology alone. Rather, we agree with Pfeiffer (2022) that the specific characteristics of digitalised capitalism arise less from digital technology per se than from the structural economic problems and crises that are increasingly dealt with digitally. As we want to show below with reference to our own empirical material, the logic of technology use, as well as the logic of selfperpetuation, has changed along with problems of valorisation.…”

Section: Digital Self-perpetuation and Activisationsupporting

confidence: 64%

Governed by digital technology?

Klur¹,

Nies²

2023

WOLG

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Digitalisation is often associated with the domination of technology over humans. This article aims to develop a concept of self-perpetuation that illuminates the relationship between technology and social domination instead of focusing only on technological properties. Drawing on Marx’s concept of real subsumption and interviews in industrial companies, we analyse specific forms of self-perpetuation that take place in the digitalised working world. In doing so, we critically examine the diagnosis of digital Taylorism which assumes a comprehensive elimination of the subjectivity of workers. In contrast, we show that digital technology allows for other forms of domination based on the flexibility of living labour.

show abstract

Section: Digital Self-perpetuation and Activisationsupporting

confidence: 64%

Governed by digital technology?

Klur¹,

Nies²

2023

WOLG

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This article investigates an actor's perspective on digital capitalism. There is a lot of research on the business model of digital capitalism (Pfeiffer 2022;Nachtwey and Staab 2016;Seidl 2023) and on its cultural basis: the Californian ideology and its Solutionist worldview (Barbrook and Cameron 2001;Nachtwey and Seidl 2023). There is also a growing field of research on tech workers (Dorschel 2022a;2022b;Ziegler 2022;Daum 2021;Thompson 2019), which especially focuses on coders as a new social class and on their subjectivity understood as "cultural self-understandings, attitudes and motivations towards labour" (Dorschel 2022a, 295).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology

Thaa,

Ivanova,

Nickel

et al. 2024

tripleC

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article investigates an actor’s perspective on digital capitalism. Building on the literatures on control and autonomy of software workers in digital capitalism and on the New Spirit of Digital Capitalism, we argue that an investigation of software workers’ orientations towards the use value of their work and of their imaginaries of technology contributes to our understanding of digital capitalism. We ask how software workers make sense of their work and how different imaginaries of technology might form the basis for a critique of digital capitalism or strengthen its legitimacy. We find that software workers hold strong claims of a societal use value of their work. While their ethos of good technology forms a strong foundation to critique hindrances they perceive in creating useful technology, imaginaries of technology as an autonomous force might delegitimise the workers’ claims.

show abstract

Towards a geographical political economy understanding of platformization

Ecker,

Münßinger

2024

Progress in Economic Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces

Cited by 4 publications

References 50 publications

Governed by digital technology?

Governed by digital technology?

Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology

Towards a geographical political economy understanding of platformization

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About