![]() ![]() An important part of the book is its critique of what Wark terms ‘genteel’ Marxism. ![]() ![]() And it isn’t just workers who are being subordinated, it’s traditional industrialists, too-Facebook has a market value of some $550 billion, nearly ten times that of General Motors, with a fraction of the employees and virtually none of the infrastructure.Ĭoming a decade and a half after A Hacker Manifesto, in a brave new world dominated by platforms such as Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb, and marked by anxiety in the Age of the Anthropocene, Capital Is Dead eschews digital utopianism for a sense of urgency that recognizes things have gotten serious. The latter not only capture the physical output of the former’s labor, but appropriate their very being, as well. Wark picks up the narrative begun in A Hacker Manifesto in which conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie has been superseded by the domination of the hacker (creators of new concepts and connections) by the vectoralist (so named for their control of the networks through which information flows in space and time). ![]() Like its predecessor, Capital Is Dead surveys the mental, social, and physical environment in which the means of economic accumulation and thus power have radically shifted, in which value no longer resides in owning the means of production but in controlling flows of information. Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? is a sequel to McKenzie Wark’s highly influential 2004 book, A Hacker Manifesto. ![]()
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