The Social Time of Digital Capital Era:Formation,Problems,and Refactoring
Digital capital is nurtured by the alliance between capital and digital technology.It is the contemporary form of the presence of capital.Digital capital constructs new time structures by transforming the world of labor and reshaping the world of life.This also prompts new changes and characteristics in the way people exist.However,digital capital has not fundamentally changed its proliferative nature and exploitative relationship.It will inevitably create new forms of manipulating labor time,while constructing consumption time and other people's time to fill and replace human leisure time.This leads to a shift in people's living time towards time that aligns with capital growth and power control.Therefore,contemporary men and women find it difficult to truly create a better life in the time domain of digital capital.Even more so,they may distort into subjectless entities obedient to the domination of digital capital.In the current era where digital capital has vitality,the socialist system should be used to regulate and guide the development of capital,promoting digital technology to serve the construction of people-centered social time.This is a feasible path for people to create a better life and an ideal way of survival while controlling their free time.Therefore,The significance of grasping the relationship between digital capital and social time is not only to critically reflect on how digital capital shapes and trains people in planning and constructing social time,but also to explore how to create new ways of life while overcoming the time exploitation and manipulation of digital capital,and to promote the comprehensive development of people.
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