{"id":4,"date":"2008-08-20T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-09-01T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T19:36:38","slug":"control-information-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2008\/08\/control-information-society\/","title":{"rendered":"control-information society"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multitudes.samizdat.net\/Autonomist-Marxism-and-the.html\">Multitudes Web &#8211; Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beneath the rosy images of the information society lie<br \/>\nthe stark goals of \u2019control and reduction in the costs of labour\u2019<br \/>\n(Negri 1978, 254).<\/p>\n<p class=\"spip\">Such analysis is by no means unique to autonomists.<br \/>\nIndeed awareness of the role of informatics in the neoliberal assault<br \/>\non the working class has generated an influential line of quasi-Marxist<br \/>\n\u2019neo-Luddism\u2019. Based largely on \u2019labour process\u2019 perspectives derived<br \/>\nfroth Braverman\u2019s (1974) seminal studies on the \u2019degradation of work\u2019,<br \/>\nbut with important strands in media studies, this seeks to expose the<br \/>\nnew technologies as instruments for deskilling and \u2019mind management\u2019<br \/>\n(Schiller 1976) and to revive, at least intellectually, the resistant<br \/>\ntradition of 19th century machine-breakers (e.g. Noble, 1983, 1984 ;<br \/>\nWebster and Robins 1986).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multitudes Web &#8211; Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society Beneath the rosy images of the information society lie the stark goals of \u2019control and reduction in the costs of labour\u2019 (Negri 1978, 254). Such analysis is by no means unique to autonomists. Indeed awareness of the role of informatics in the neoliberal assault on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,13,12],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-labour","tag-mind-menagement","tag-new-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}