Platform Capitalism

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Examining the rise of monopolistic platform capitalism.

This book is relevant for anyone interested in understanding the economic landscape of current times and how it is being shaped by big tech companies. The author offers in-depth analysis of how the foundation of economy is being rapidly divided among a few dominant platforms. The uniqueness of this book lies in its critical examination of the new business forms and how their rise is posing significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future.

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Platform Capitalism

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ISBN: 9781509504879
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $19.75
Authors: Nick Srnicek
Publisher: Polity
Date of Publication: 2016-12-27
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.93
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What is the relationship between emerging technology and the future structure of our economy? Is contemporary capitalism unwittingly breeding the technologies that will herald its own downfall? In this cutting-edge new book, rising star of the accelerationist movement Nick Srnicek addresses these questions, showing how contemporary innovations in automation, cybernetics and manufacturing represent a theoretical and practical challenge to the very economic system that bred them.Historically, thinkers on the left demanded reduced work hours, economic democracy, and freely available abundance. Paradoxically, just as such demands seem as elusive as ever at a political level, they are becoming encoded into the very technological foundations of neoliberalism. Srnicek examines technologies such as automated logistics, cybernetic planning, and additive manufacturing in order to re-interpret older debates about worker control over the means of production, the 'fetters' of capitalist development, and situationist concepts of dEtournement. In so doing, the foundations and future of neoliberalism are brought under intense scrutiny.
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Examining the rise of monopolistic platform capitalism.

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