ABSTRACT

Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age provides a view of the current state of capitalism, through the interrogation of key diagnoses offered by philosophers and social theorists.

With attention to questions about the manner in which the advent of the information age has shaped capitalism, the implications of the post- digital age for social capital, and the possible forms of resistance to the problematic aspects of capitalism, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and social theory with interests in critical theory, capitalist society, and digital culture.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Capital and Beyond

part I|70 pages

Capitalism's New Clothes?

chapter 1|15 pages

“The Age of Resilience”

chapter 2|20 pages

Capital, or, Information

Affective Labor, Historical Materialism, and the Convergence of Forces and Relations of Production

chapter 3|13 pages

Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Pliroforicene?

Regardless, We Need Gelassenheit

chapter 4|20 pages

Capital after Vaccinations

part II|61 pages

Capital in the Information Age

chapter 5|12 pages

The Invention of the Brain

Artificial Intelligence and Libidinal Symptomatology

chapter 6|20 pages

Beyond the Automated Left

On the Autonomy of AI Ecologies

chapter 8|14 pages

Hacking as a Weapon

Exposing the Underlying Imperfections of Neoliberal Democracy through Technology in Mr. Robot

part III|62 pages

Varieties of Social Capital

chapter 9|14 pages

Exchanges

chapter 10|13 pages

Not Quite a Capital but Still Capital Results

An Ethnographic Critique of Bourdieu's Notion of Social Capital 1

chapter 12|24 pages

Images in the Age of Social Media

Capitalism, Consumerism, and Liberalism

part IV|40 pages

Capitalism and Its Others

chapter 13|14 pages

Who Will Take Part in Knowledge?

On the Condition(s) of Knowledge Socialism

chapter 14|12 pages

The Concept of Natural History in Marx's Capital and Adorno's The Idea of Natural History

Nature, the Cage of Self-Preservation and Critique of Political Economy

chapter 15|12 pages

Capitalism and Slowness

Resistance or Reterritorialization? The Case of Slow Food