The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx 2018
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.013.23
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The Commodification of Knowledge and Information

Abstract: This entry presents an analysis of the commodification of knowledge and information in contemporary capitalism. We provide a consistent account of how information as a commodity effects the workings of both capitalism and of Marxist theory. The first part of the chapter critically revisits Marx’s own writings on the commodification of knowledge and how the immaterial labor hypothesis initially interpreted these writings. Based on the new categories knowledge-commodity and knowledge-rent, we then present our ow… Show more

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“…In Marxist research, the commodification of science, overall, and of academic research, more specifically, remains a peripheral issue – but, fortunately, the number of scholars working on this problem is growing (to cite just a few contributions: Hall and Bowles, 2016; Harvie, 2006; Harvie and De Angelis, 2009; Rikap and Harari-Kermadec, 2020; Rotta and Teixeira, 2019; Szadkowski, 2023; Szadkowski and Krzeski, 2019, 2022). Marxism has enriched the analysis of the commodification of academic research, bringing more clarity and density in conceptual terms.…”
Section: Cpbf In the Debate On The Commodification Of Academic Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Marxist research, the commodification of science, overall, and of academic research, more specifically, remains a peripheral issue – but, fortunately, the number of scholars working on this problem is growing (to cite just a few contributions: Hall and Bowles, 2016; Harvie, 2006; Harvie and De Angelis, 2009; Rikap and Harari-Kermadec, 2020; Rotta and Teixeira, 2019; Szadkowski, 2023; Szadkowski and Krzeski, 2019, 2022). Marxism has enriched the analysis of the commodification of academic research, bringing more clarity and density in conceptual terms.…”
Section: Cpbf In the Debate On The Commodification Of Academic Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pero al prevenir potenciales situaciones como ésta, estos derechos de propiedad intelectual no imponen un valor de cambio para esta mercancía por encima de su insignificantemente pequeño (o inexistente) valor, como pretenden los economistas marxistas que discutimos (cf. Perelman, 2003, zeller, 2008, teixeira & Rotta, 2012, Rotta & teixeira, 2018, Rigi, 2014. Al contrario, estos derechos de propiedad no hacen sino mediar la plena realización del valor de las mercancías intensivas en conocimiento.…”
Section: La Forma Jurídica De Las Mercancías Intensivas En Conocimientounclassified
“…Habiendo primero declarado que las mercancías intensivas en conocimiento no tienen ningún valor inmanente como consecuencia de su reproducibilidad sin costos, los economistas marxistas procuran salvaguardar la teoría del valor de Marx frente a estas características de las mercancías intensivas en conocimiento aplicando a ellas la teoría marxiana de la renta de la tierra. Así, se afirma que se generan "rentas de monopolio" cuando los derechos de propiedad intelectual transforman una mercancía no escasa en una artificialmente escasa y "rentas diferenciales" en la medida en que la utilización de la información transformada en mercancía permite aumentar la productividad del trabajo (teixeira & Rotta, 2012, Rotta & teixeira, 2018, Rigi, 2014. A su vez, se reconoce que, al igual que ocurre en la explicación marxiana de la renta de la tierra, en este caso la propiedad intelectual permite captar plusvalor producido en otras ramas de la producción (Foley, 2013).…”
Section: La Forma Jurídica De Las Mercancías Intensivas En Conocimientounclassified
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“…The study of the idealizations and de-idealizations that Marx made in Capital could provide useful methodological elements for studies that carry out analyses of concrete facts from Marxist categories such as cryptocurrencies and digital commodities (Rotta & Paraná 2022), the commodification of knowledge and information (Rotta & Teixeira 2019), urban studies and real estate speculation (Swyngedouw 2019), and analyses on agrarian issues on peripheral realities (Das 2019), among other cases of applications, where concrete applications of Marxian categories to case studies could be understood as different cases of de-idealization. But, as we will see with the idea of the hermeneutic circles and some insights from contemporary philosophy of science (as ontologization), the process of de-idealization is never linear and mechanical.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%