[P2P-F] New tripleC special issue: Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis

Thu May 2 15:06:23 CEST 2024

Thomas, Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2024. 
Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. 
Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1): 
140-433.

Full issue: DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1501

ABSTRACT:

tripleC’s special issue on “Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: 
Theories and Praxis” presents 14 papers and an introduction that 
contribute to establishing foundations of critical theories and the 
philosophy of praxis in the light of digital capitalism. In Marxist 
theory, a theoretical and analytical strand has emerged that is focused 
on the roles that knowledge, communication, media, digital media, and 
digital communication play in and beyond capitalism. This special issue 
is a contribution to this type of Marxian analysis and theory construction.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. 
Introduction to the Special Issue
Christian Fuchs, Sevda Can Arslan and Thomas Allmer (140-147)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1498

1. THEORISING DIGITAL CAPITALISM

Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political 
Economy Perspective
Christian Fuchs (148-196)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454

The Neofeudalising Tendency of Communicative Capitalism
Jodi Dean (197-207)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1460

Digitalisation Today as the Capitalist Appropriation of People’s Mental 
Labour
Friedrich Krotz (208-231)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1477

Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of 
Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure
Maïa Pal and Neal Harris (232-247)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1431

2. DIGITAL LABOUR AND CLASS

Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology
Helene Thaa, Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel, Friedericke Hardering and 
Oliver Nachtwey (248-264)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1462

Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism
Jasmin Schreyer (265-291)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1463

Involution, No Revolution: Technocapitalism and Intern Labour
Anthony Fung, Wei He and Feier Chen (292-306)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1455

Tracing Class and Capital in Critical AI Research
Petter Ericson, Roel Dobbe and Simon Lindgren (307-328)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1464

Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate 
Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word
Max Haiven, Graeme Webb, Sarah Olutola and Xenia Benivolski (329-347)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1476

3. DOMINATION IN DIGITAL CAPITALISM

Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies
Sébastien Shulz, Mathieu O’Neil, Sébastien Broca and Angela Daly (348-365)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1456

Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and 
De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and 
Algorithmic Opacity
Stefania Animento (366-380)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1459

Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, 
Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in 
Nigeria
Paul A. Obi (381-395)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1451

4. DEMOCRACY, PUBLIC SPHERE AND DIGITAL CAPITALISM

Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its 
Consequences for a Public Service Internet
Charli Muller (396-412)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1461

On a Potential Paradox of a Public Service Internet
Elisabeth Korn and Jens Schröter (413-433)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1452