Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle - Softcover

Woodcock, Jamie

 
9781608468669: Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1608468666 ISBN 13: 9781608468669
Verlag: Haymarket Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

More people are playing video games than ever before, and yet much of the work of their production remains obscured to us.

Deploying a Marxist approach, Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry, unravelling the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose material and immaterial labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Beyond this, the book analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism, and the broader transformations of work and economy that it embodies. Woodcock also presents game-play itself not as a “deviant activity,” as it is often understood, but as a commentary of estrangement from contemporary forms of work. In so doing, it offers a fresh and much needed analysis of a sector which has for too long been neglected by scholars and labor activists alike.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the award-winning Working the Phones (2016). He is on the editorial board of the Historical Materialism and an editor of Notes from Below, an online journal of workers’ inquiry.

 

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Verlag
Haymarket Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1608468666
ISBN 13 
9781608468669
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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