Beschreibung:
This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the value of cognitive labour becomes dominant.
Introduction 1. An introduction to Cognitive Capitalism: A Marxist Approach 2. Metamorphosis of the Theory of Value and Becoming-rent of Profit: An Attempt to Clarify the Terms of a Debate 3. Twenty Thesis on Contemporary Capitalism (Bio-cognitve Capitalism) 4. New Forms of Exploitation in Bio-cognitive Capitalism: Towards Life Subsumption 5. A Financialized Monetary Economy of Production 6. Cognitive Capitalism, an Empirical and Theoretical Analysis 7. Common and Commons in the Contradictory Dynamics between Knowledge-based Economy and Cognitive Capitalism 8. Postface