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Abstraction and Abjection

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What is the relationship between capitalism and the digital? Is the seamless integration between capital and digitality merely the result of a serendipitous encounter between this mode of productio...
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  • 07 January 2027
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What is the relationship between capitalism and the digital? Is the seamless integration between capital and digitality merely the result of a serendipitous encounter between this mode of production and the invention of the digital computer, or is it possible to identify deeper continuities at work? This book seeks to articulate a materialist answer to this question by drawing on various strands of contemporary Marxist theory to reconceptualise digital technologies and capitalist society as sharing a common logic of abstraction and abjection. It argues that the digital recapitulates specific aspects of capitalist abstraction, manifested as a discretising logic and content-indifferent formalism underpinning both computational machines and the social relations theorised within the Marxian tradition under the concept of value.
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Price: $158.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date: 07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004774896
Format: Hardcover
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Alan Díaz Alva holds a PhD from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. With a background in architecture, he now focuses on research in the fields of critical philosophy, Marxist theory, philosophy of technology, and digital media. His writing has appeared in Qui Parle, Media Theory, and Marxism & Sciences, among others.