[P2P-F] Video and book launch: Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, by Christian Fuchs

Thu May 21 10:46:26 CEST 2020

Christian Fuchs. 2020. Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory. 
London: University of Westminster Press. 406 pages.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book45
Available as paperback and as gratis open access e-book

Book launch talk "Capitalism & Communication: Critical Theory in the Age 
of the Internet & Digital Capitalism":
https://youtu.be/liiEEumaLfs

Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian 
Fuchs outlines foundation of a critical, dialectical, humanist approach 
to theorising communication in society and in capitalism.

-- "an impressive wide-ranging book”.
Prof Michael Hardt, Duke University
-- "a comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the 
deepening crisis of communicative capitalism"
Prof Graham Murdock, Loughborough University

German translation:
Christian Fuchs. 2020. Kommunikation und Kapitalismus. Eine kritische 
Theorie. München: UVK/utb. ISBN 978-3-8252-5239-7. 501 Seiten.
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/kommunikation-und-kapitalismus/

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I: Foundations of Communicative Materialism
2. Materialism
3. Materialism and Society
4. Communication and Society

Part II: Communication in Capitalist Society
5. Capitalism and Communication
6. Communication Technologies: Means of Communication as Means of Production
7. Communication Society
8. Political Communication in the Public Sphere
9. Ideology
10. Nationalism, Communication, Ideology
11. Global Communication and Imperialism

Part III: The Materialist Transcendence of Communicative Capitalism
12. Communication Society as Society of the Commons
13. Death and Love: The Metaphysics of Communication
14. Communication and Struggles for Alternatives

15. Conclusion: Advancing a Dialectical, Humanist, Critical Theory of 
Communication and Society