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a Marxist theory of communication

A Marxist theory of communication should "demonstrate how communication and culture are material practices, how labor and language are mutually constituted, and how communication and information are dialectical instances of the same social activity, the social construction of meaning. Situating the…

—p.17 Digital Labour and Karl Marx Introduction (1) by Christian Fuchs
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the intrinsic instability of cognitive capitalism

The fact that the most characteristic commodities of cognitive capitalism are information- and knowledge-goods introduces an intrinsic factor of uncertainty that did not exist during the era of Fordism. The nature of these goods (their indivisibility, non-rivalry and non-excludability) makes them s…

—p.144 Cognitive Capitalism Macroeconomic deadlock: Going beyond the critique of neoliberalism and financialisation (136) by Yann Moulier-Boutang
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simulacrum

the deceptively attractive idea that finance is a simulacrum and that what is needed is a return to the true economy

he disagrees with this because of the accounting problem (re: intangibles)

—p.181 Does the financial crisis sound the knell of a cognitive capitalism that is stillborn? (167) by Yann Moulier-Boutang
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