7 - Free Labor – Tiziana Terranova

Arguments about what is work and what is not work within digital media industry had been nurtured by advocates of digital labor for the last decade. For some of them, capital has been weakened by the demand for knowledge and creativity which posits workers in advantage. To others, the profits of companies as Google and Facebook prove that the digital environment of work is not far from the well know Marxists theories (especially from Marx predictions in a few passages of the Grundrisse when he points to the capital dependence of social intellect to improve the machinery (Marx, 1973)). Tiziana Terranova seems to be somewhere between these two theorists groups.

6 - Fragment on Machines - Karl Marx

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The Fragment on Machines is part of Marx’s Grundrisse. Far more than "sketches" or furtherance of Karl Marx's major work, the Grundrisse originally considered a work in progress of what was to become Marx's central work. It is now known that examining the Grundrisse is like having access to Marx's laboratory of studies in the course of his extensive intellectual activity.