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The Rethinking of Technology in Class Struggle: Communicative Affirmation and Foreclosure Politics
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With expansive digital networks supporting circuits of accumulation, facilitating both new forms of value capture and proletarian organization, Marxian scholars have shown renewed interest in questions of technology in class struggle. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, the most conspicuous autonomist Marxist theorizing on the subject, presents networked technology positively, as part of the revolutionary body, the multitude. Against the affirmative view, critiques of technology and technological rationality, drawn from a thread of Frankfurt School critical theory, have been posed as challenges to Hardt and Negri's conception of technology in class struggle. After identifying a genealogy of what this paper calls foreclosure politics running through the works of Herbert Marcuse, Jodi Dean, and Christian Fuchs, the paper closes by suggesting a conception of technology in class struggle triangulated by critical theory and affirmative conceptions of use.
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“Like the workers, consumers, and managers in the monetary economy, digital commoners do not constitute revolutionary subjects who are able to think beyond the present condition or to unsettle current ruling desires (Fleming and Spicer, 2003; Greaves, 2015).”
From The illusion of the digital commons: 'False consciousness' in online alternative economies (2017) · cites this paper as Greaves, 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).”
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- Authors
- Greaves, M.
- Corresponding author
- Greaves, Matthew
- ORCID
- Greaves, Matthew
- Venue
- Rethinking Marxism
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-03-31
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 195-211
- ISSN
- 0893-5696 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-8059
- OpenAlex
- W2029040318
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Rethinking Marxism (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Marxism and Critical Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Keywords
- Frankfurt School critical theory, Herbert Marcuse, Jodi Dean, Christian Fuchs, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, empire, multitude, autonomism, digital networks, technological rationality, critique of technology, technology use
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