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Production as a total religion of man: Notes on Gramsci’s Prison Writings (VII). by Gerardo Muñoz
In an important moment of Notebook 7, Antonio Gramsci writes that production in the age of industrialization amounts to a “new religion of the common man”. This thesis conditions many aspects of Gramsci’s thought and fully exposes his thinking as determined by the epoch of industrialization. If so, this means that his thinking is fundamentally […]
Going nowhere: on Jason E. Smith’s Smart Machines and Service Work (2020). by Gerardo Muñoz
Jason Smith’s Smart Machines and Service Work (Reaktion Books, 2020) provides us with a renewed cartography of the labor transformations in the wake of automation and the cybernetic revolution, which has ultimately created a “vast service sector” (9). Although at first sight Smith’s book seems to be preoccupied with questions of technology innovation in the post-fordist epoch, […]
Valorización absoluta y anti-institucionalismo. por Gerardo Muñoz
Sobre el neoliberalismo se han dicho muchas cosas y se seguirán diciendo muchas más, puesto que todavía no podemos establecer un “epochê” ante su fenómeno. El neoliberalismo no es una determinación económica o no solo, sino un tipo específico de racionalidad cuyo principio central es el ordenamiento vital. Me gustaría sugerir que la sustancia de […]
