Technological Exorcism,Capital Restructuring and Cyber-liberation—Nick Dyer-Witheford's Analysis and Critique of High-technology Capitalism
Since the late twentieth century,the capitalist system has continuously established global monopoly advantages with the proliferative use of high technology,shaping an ever-present and all-pervasive value chain.The validity of Marx's critique of the logic of capital in the digital age has become a new field of debate for Western scholars.Nick Dyer-Witheford identifies the ways of the restructuring of capitalism in the high-tech age,based on a theoretical approach of"autonomist Marxism".Capital accelerates the circuit process with digital technology,shapes the world system in the service of exploitation and accumulation with the help of global communication technology,absorbs artificial intelligence into"the general conditions of production"necessary for capital expansion,and applies biogenetic technology to exert control over the evolutionary pedigree of the species,leading to the alienation and aberration of the evolution of human nature.Nick Dyer-Witheford identifies the"cyber-proletariat"as a revolutionary subject,interprets a program of"common prosperity"as an alternative to capitalism,and sketches out a vision of"cyber-liberation"in which the physical body is transformed,and the human-symbiosis is achieved.Nick Dyer-Witheford renews a utopian theory of autonomist radical politics in the high-tech age.
Nick Dyer-Withefordautonomismhigh-tech capitalismcyber-liberationartificial intelligence
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