Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
This paper investigates how four specific emergent technologies, namely affective computing, augmented reality, cloud-based systems, and human machine symbiosis, demonstrate how technological innovation nurtured inside the University is commodified and fetishised under cognitive capitalism or immate...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2012-05-01
|
| Series: | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/378 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1849236255165906944 |
|---|---|
| author | Richard Hall Bernd Stahl |
| author_facet | Richard Hall Bernd Stahl |
| author_sort | Richard Hall |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This paper investigates how four specific emergent technologies, namely affective computing, augmented reality, cloud-based systems, and human machine symbiosis, demonstrate how technological innovation nurtured inside the University is commodified and fetishised under cognitive capitalism or immaterial labour, and how it thereby further enables capital to reproduce itself across the social factory. Marx’s critique of technologies, through their connection to nature, production, social relations and mental conceptions, and in direct relation to the labour process, demonstrates how capital utilises emergent technologies to incorporate labour further into its self-valorisation process as labour-power. The University life-world that includes research and development is a critical domain in which to site Marx's structural technological critique, and it is argued that this enables a critique of the public development and deployment of these technologies to reveal them as a fetishised force of production, in order to re-politicise activity between students, teachers and the public. |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-95fc38c8eb654cde9e1497774aacf6ec |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 1726-670X |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2012-05-01 |
| publisher | Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group |
| record_format | Article |
| series | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
| spelling | doaj-art-95fc38c8eb654cde9e1497774aacf6ec2025-08-20T04:02:22ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X2012-05-0110210.31269/triplec.v10i2.378378Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent TechnologiesRichard HallBernd StahlThis paper investigates how four specific emergent technologies, namely affective computing, augmented reality, cloud-based systems, and human machine symbiosis, demonstrate how technological innovation nurtured inside the University is commodified and fetishised under cognitive capitalism or immaterial labour, and how it thereby further enables capital to reproduce itself across the social factory. Marx’s critique of technologies, through their connection to nature, production, social relations and mental conceptions, and in direct relation to the labour process, demonstrates how capital utilises emergent technologies to incorporate labour further into its self-valorisation process as labour-power. The University life-world that includes research and development is a critical domain in which to site Marx's structural technological critique, and it is argued that this enables a critique of the public development and deployment of these technologies to reveal them as a fetishised force of production, in order to re-politicise activity between students, teachers and the public.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/378UniversityEmergent TechnologyAcademic ActivismCommodificationCognitive Capitalism |
| spellingShingle | Richard Hall Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique University Emergent Technology Academic Activism Commodification Cognitive Capitalism |
| title | Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies |
| title_full | Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies |
| title_fullStr | Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies |
| title_short | Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies |
| title_sort | against commodification the university cognitive capitalism and emergent technologies |
| topic | University Emergent Technology Academic Activism Commodification Cognitive Capitalism |
| url | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/378 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT richardhall againstcommodificationtheuniversitycognitivecapitalismandemergenttechnologies AT berndstahl againstcommodificationtheuniversitycognitivecapitalismandemergenttechnologies |