Marx, Alienation and Techno-Capitalism
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Beschreibung
In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation. This concept—much more profound and widespread today than first described and denounced by Marx—has largely been forgotten and erased. Using the characters of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Prometheus, the author reinterprets and updates Marx, Nietzsche, Anders, Foucault and, in particular, critical theory and the Frankfurt School views on an administered society (where everything is automated and engineered, manifest today in algorithms, AI, machine learning and social networking) showing that, in a world where old and new forms of alienation come together, man is increasingly led to delegate (i.e. alienate) sovereignty, freedom, responsibility and the awareness of being alive.
Lelio Demichelis is Professor of Economic Sociology at Insubria University, Italy.
In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation. This concept—much more profound and widespread today than first described and denounced by Marx—has largely been forgotten and erased. Using the characters of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Prometheus, the author reinterprets and updates Marx, Nietzsche, Anders, Foucault and, in particular, critical theory and the Frankfurt School views on an administered society (where everything is automated and engineered, manifest today in algorithms, AI, machine learning and social networking) showing that, in a world where old and new forms of alienation come together, man is increasingly led to delegate (i.e. alienate) sovereignty, freedom, responsibility and the awareness of being alive.
Imagines a radical alternative against techno-capitalism, which begins with Marx and ends with the present day Provides a courageous defence of the modern individual against techno-capitalist totalitarianism Offers a radical point of view to rethink life and labour in the new/old techno-capitalism
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Lelio Demichelis
Themen in »Marx, Alienation and Techno-Capitalism«
Marxism alienation techno-capitalism platform capitalism administered society automation machine learning sociology of work technocratic society capitalism and technology social networking crisis of modernity Critical Theory sovereignty Narcissus