Digital Objects,
DigitalSubjects:
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives onCapitalism,
Labour and Politics in the
Age of Big Data
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David Chandler and Christian Fuchs
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Contents
1. Introduction: Big Data Capitalism –
Politics, Activism, and Teory 1
Christian Fuchs and David Chandler
Section I: Digital Capitalism and Big Data Capitalism 21
2. Digital Governance in the Anthropocene: Te Rise of the
Correlational Machine 23
David Chandler
3. Beyond Big Data Capitalism, Towards Dialectical Digital
Modernity: Refections on David Chandler’s Chapter 43
Christian Fuchs
4. Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism 53
Christian Fuchs
5. What is at Stake in the Critique of Big Data Refections on
Christian Fuchs’s Chapter 73
David Chandler
6. Seeing Like a Cyborg Te Innocence of Posthuman
Knowledge 81
Paul Rekret
7. Posthumanism as a Spectrum: Refections on Paul Rekret’s
Chapter 95
Robert Cowley
Section II: Digital Labour 101
8. Trough the Reproductive Lens: Labour and Struggle at the
Intersection of Culture and Economy 103
Kylie Jarrett
9. Contradictions in the Twitter Social Factory: Refections on
Kylie Jarrett’s Chapter 117
Joanna Boehnert。