{"product_id":"abstraction-and-abjection-9789004774896","title":"Abstraction and Abjection","description":"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.","brand":"Alan Diaz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49059491840251,"sku":"9789004774896","price":158.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/abstraction-and-abjection-9789004774896","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}