The Rethinking of Technology in Class Struggle: Communicative Affirmation and Foreclosure Politics

Greaves, Matthew

doi:10.1080/08935696.2015.1007792

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“…• Research intersecting or combining topics such as the above (Fuchs, 2019;Greaves, 2015;Thomson, 2000;Weisberg, 2015).…”

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“…• Research intersecting or combining topics such as the above (Fuchs, 2019;Greaves, 2015;Thomson, 2000;Weisberg, 2015).…”

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“…Such cynicism of the ‘embittered loner’ is the ‘false consciousness’ of activist digital commoners, whose needs and means for fulfillment are reconfigured to suit the demands of the technological dictates of a capitalist world (Greaves, 2015). It is a ‘false consciousness’ because such digital commoners falsely identify their own disillusion, alienation, and obsession with new digital technologies as a personal trouble and, accordingly, fail to see how such an existence is the result of being dominated by the hegemonic paradigm of neoliberal capitalism.…”

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“…By relying on digital forms of commoning, digital commoners are overtaken by ‘the power of things’ in their digitalized environments, which displaces and disperses their critical and radical energies (cf. Greaves, 2015). Alvesson and Spicer (2012) stress that such displacement and dispersing of critical and radical energies—which they typify as ‘functional stupidity’—is an important resource for capitalist enterprises.…”

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“…Brighenti, 2016). On one hand, Greaves (2015) observes that users of digital forums act like ‘digital proletarians’ who attempt to transform their cooperative activities into economic value, without becoming revolutionary subjects who think beyond the confines of their present condition in a capitalist world. Digital technologies, Greaves explains, contribute to the displacement and dispersion of critical energy to the point that even as inequality and domination intensify in capitalist worlds, no revolutionary resistance is organized.…”

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The illusion of the digital commons: ‘False consciousness’ in online alternative economies

Ossewaarde¹,

Reijers

2017

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Digital commons such as Wikipedia, open-source software, and hospitality exchanges are frequently seen as forms of resistance to capitalist modes of production and consumption, as elements of alternative economies. In this article, however, we argue that the digital commons cannot by themselves constitute genuine forms of resistance for they are vulnerable to what we call ‘the illusion of the digital commons’, which leads to a form of ‘false consciousness’ that Sloterdijk designates as deep-rooted cynicism. This cynicism, we argue, ties in with the contemporary discontent with practices in the ‘sharing economy’, in which we pay particular attention to the practice of hospitality exchange on platforms such as BeWelcome, Couchsurfing, and Airbnb. We utilize Georg Simmel’s theory of money to explicate how exchange relations are mediated by technologically enabled explicit and implicit price mechanisms. Accordingly, we argue that the technologically mediated practice of digital commoning can constitute the ‘illusion of the commons’, an apparent form of commoning through digital exchanges that is inherently vulnerable to foster non-emancipatory practices. We argue that this results in a form of cynicism: of commoners that are disillusioned by ‘the power of things’. Only a ‘politics of the digital commons’, a democratic governance that keeps a check on the vulnerability of digital exchanges, and a free relation to technologies can help in avoiding the illusion of the digital commons.

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“…Si bien potencia la sensación de comunidad y la democratización de la divulgación y visibilidad de sujetos feministas más diversos, una de las autocríticas es la necesidad de reapropiarse del discurso feminista en redes sociales y crear contenido compartido. No se trata por tanto de estar presentes en las redes solamente para hacer circular discursos fragmentados que pudieran ser endogámicos y autorreferenciales, sino de evitar el fetichismo tecnológico (Dean, 2005), generando espacios propios y formulando propuestas y discursos reactivos que adquieran carácter político.…”

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Subactivismo feminista y repertorios de acción colectiva digitales: prácticas ciberfeministas en Twitter

Duarte¹,

Romero²

2017

EPI

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The Rethinking of Technology in Class Struggle: Communicative Affirmation and Foreclosure Politics

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Call for SubmissionsBusiness Ethics QuarterlySpecial Issue on: Socio-Technological Conditions of Organized Immaturity in the Twenty-First Century

Call for SubmissionsBusiness Ethics QuarterlySpecial Issue on: Socio-Technological Conditions of Organized Immaturity in the Twenty-First Century

The illusion of the digital commons: ‘False consciousness’ in online alternative economies

Subactivismo feminista y repertorios de acción colectiva digitales: prácticas ciberfeministas en Twitter

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