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  • Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism

    An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism

    Mariano Zukerfeld

    Part of the Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies series.
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    Author Mariano Zukerfeld was awarded the best book prize by The Association ESOCITE (Asociación Latinamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Cience y la Tecnología).

    “the book is a refreshing, dynamic approach leading back into discussions which have been neglected during the last 20 years.” -https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971

    Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism's totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.

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      Review from 23 Feb 2018: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
      Book Review: Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism by Mariano Zukerfeld

      Rainer Zimmermann

      Rainer E. Zimmermann reviews Mariano Zukerfeld's Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism. An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism, University of Westminster Press, London, 2017, 272 pp., paperback and open access, gratis e-book. There are severa…

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      Review from 15 Sep 2017: Books and Ideas
      Digital without proletarians

      Sébastien Broca

      Does the digital economy make the main tools of Marxist analysis definitively obsolete ? This is the thesis of Mariano Zukerfeld, who proposes in an invigorating essay to rethink the critique of capitalism from the question of knowledge, and not of…

      The full review cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. You can read the full review at Books and Ideas



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    Zukerfeld, M. 2017. Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book3
    Zukerfeld, M., 2017. Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book3
    Zukerfeld, M. Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism. University of Westminster Press, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book3
    Zukerfeld, M. (2017). Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book3
    Zukerfeld, Mariano. 2017. Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book3




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    Published on May 26, 2017

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    272

    ISBN
    EPUB 978-1-911534-26-6
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    https://doi.org/10.16997/book3