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Beyond Capital - Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future (Paperback)
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Beyond Capital - Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a
"great moderation" and the view that capitalism had overcome its
systemic tendencies to crisis. The subsequent failure of
contemporary social formations to address the causes of the crisis
gives renewed impetus to better analysis in aid of the search for a
better future. This book contributes to this search by reviving a
broad discussion of what we humans might want a post-capitalist
future to be like. It argues for a comparative anthropological
critique of capital notions of value, thereby initiating the search
for a new set of values, as well as identifying a number of
selected computing practices that might evoke new values. It
articulates a suggestive set of institutions that could support
these new values, and formulates a group of measurement practices
usable for evaluating the proposed institutions. The book is
grounded in contemporary social science, political theory, and
critical theory. It aims to leverage the possibility of alternative
futures implied by some computing practices while avoiding hype and
technological determinism, and uses these computing practices to
explicate one possible way to think about the future.
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