A Biopolitical Interpretation of Immaterial Labor:A Critical Reflection on the Views of Hardt and Negri from the Marxian Perspective
Hardt and Negri believe that the entire Western society is stepping into a post-industrial era characterized by networking,informatization,and servitization,etc.This transformation is marked by the gradual replacement of indus-trial labor by immaterial labor which has become the dominant mode and plays a leading role in the process of social production.Immaterial labor has a broad and profound biopolitical implications,creating a commonality that cannot be fully appropriated by capital,and this commonality gives the masses the strength to fight against the empire of capital and contains the potential for biopolitical emancipation.From the perspective of living labor and subject politics,Hardt and Negri have explained in depth the connotation of immaterial labor and the socio-historical effects it triggers,and re-garded this view as an inheritance and innovation of Marx's labor theory.However,their biopolitical reading of immate-rial labor goes against Marx's labor theory of value and doctrine of emancipation,and suffers from a simplistic under-standing of class relations and real historical processes.Rethinking their view of immaterial labor with Marx's stance has important insights for the advancement of Marxian philosophy's modernization in the post-industrial era.
immaterial laborbiopoliticscommonalitylabor theory of value
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