Aristotle made a distinction between poíesis (the creation of works from nature) and praxis (self-determined action)
which also reflected the division of labour at the time ... slaves vs citizens
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…
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…
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)
