An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China and devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit, this book reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers.\r\n\r\nNick Dyer-Witheford reveals the class domi…
Di tengah krisis ekonomi dan politik dari kapitalisme neoliberal pada awal abad ke-21, membuat gagasan Marx menjadi sangat relevan. Marx tidak hanya penting dipahami untuk melihat kapitalisme kontemporer secara gamblang, tetapi juga memberi fondasi untuk bagaimana mengubah dunia di masa depan: dari kapitalisme digital yang eksploitatif, menuju komunalisme digital yang egaliter dan adil. Chri…
Buku ini berupaya mendengarkan dan mencatat pengalaman pekerja muda digital (jurnalis digital) di Indonesia. Pengalaman tekanan pekerjaan, tuntutan keluarga, impian generasi, dijalin dalam narasi yang mengalir, enak dibaca namun tidak kehilangan nuansa gugatannya. Buku ini tidak hanya berisi keluh kesah personal dan pengalaman para pekerja saja, tapi juga pemetaan dan analisis kondisi bisnis…
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitali…
General introduction: on the spirit of capitalism and the role of critique -- Part I. The emergence of a new ideological configuration -- Management discourse in the 1990s -- The formation of the projective city -- Part II. The transformation of capitalism and the neutralization of critique -- 1968: crisis and revival of capitalism -- Dismantling the world of work -- Undermining the defences of…
“A fascinating book about an alternative to austerity.” – Owen Jones A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work. Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifest0 for life afte…
In Powershift, Alvin Toffler brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life. In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit - the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and busi…
The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree. He says he came to this realization while eating a sushi box lunch on a Japanese bullet train after visiting a Lexus f…