Cognitive Surplus
Cognitive Surplus

Author: Clay Shirky

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1101434724

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The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better. In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital technology is unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For the first time, people are embracing new media that allow them to pool their efforts at vanishingly low cost. The results of this aggregated effort range from mind-expanding reference tools like Wikipedia to life-saving Web sites like Ushahidi.com, which allows Kenyans to report acts of violence in real time. Cognitive Surplus explores what's possible when people unite to use their intellect, energy, and time for the greater good.

Life as Surplus
Life as Surplus

Author: Melinda E. Cooper

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0295990317

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Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism as a political force and an economic policy. From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with growing internal contradictions of the commercialized life sciences. The biotech revolution relocated economic production at the genetic, microbial, and cellular level. Taking as her point of departure the assumption that life has been drawn into the circuits of value creation, Cooper underscores the relations between scientific, economic, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era science policy, the militarization of the life sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem cell science, and the pro-life movement, the author examines the speculative impulses that have animated the growth of the bioeconomy. At the very core of the new post-industrial economy is the transformation of biological life into surplus value. Life as Surplus offers a clear assessment of both the transformative, therapeutic dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and the violence, obligation, and debt servitude crystallizing around the emerging bioeconomy.

Crisis Cultures
Crisis Cultures

Author: Brian S. Whitener

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 082298685X

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Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts, Whitener traces the interactions between culture, finance, surplus populations, and racialized state violence after 1982 in Mexico and Brazil. Crisis Cultures makes sense of the emergence of new forms of exploitation and terrifying police and militarized violence by tracking the cultural and discursive forms, including real abstraction and the favela and immaterial cadavers and voided collectivities, that have emerged in the complicated aftermath of the long downturn and global turn to finance.

The Pleasure of a Surplus Income
The Pleasure of a Surplus Income

Author: Christine von Oertzen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781845451790

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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this specific form of work in West Germany and shows how it took root, in both norm and law, in factories, government authorities, and offices as well as within families and the lives of individual women. The author covers the period from the early 1950s, a time of optimism during the first postwar economic upswing, to 1969, the culmination of the legislative institutionalization of part-time work.

Surplus
Surplus

Author: A. Kiarina Kordela

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2008-01-03

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780791470206

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Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.

Bad Year Economics
Bad Year Economics

Author: Paul Halstead

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-09-29

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0521330211

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Explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary an cross-cultural framework.

Making Capital from Culture
Making Capital from Culture

Author: Bill Ryan

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-11-05

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3110847183

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Making Capital From Culture: Corporate Form Of Capitalist Cultural Production (De Gruyter Studies In Organization).

Chinese Surplus
Chinese Surplus

Author: Ari Larissa Heinrich

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780822370536

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Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production--from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"-- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.

Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940
Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940

Author: James Livingston

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0807863033

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The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an 'age of surplus' under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession of productive labor or property. From the same standpoint, pragmatism and literary naturalism become ways of accommodating the new forms of solidarity and subjectivity enabled by the emergence of corporate capitalism. So conceived, they become ways of articulating alternatives to modern, possessive individualism. Livingston argues accordingly that the flight from pragmatism led by Lewis Mumford was an attempt to refurbish a romantic version of modern, possessive individualism. This attempt still shapes our reading of pragmatism, Livingston claims, and will continue to do so until we understand that William James was not merely a well-meaning middleman between Charles Peirce and John Dewey and that James's pragmatism was both a working model of postmodern subjectivity and a novel critique of capitalism.