Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Last modified: November 27, 2020
Christian Fuchs, ed. 2021. Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 19 (1): 1-194. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v19i1.1233
The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique’s special issue “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” was published on the occasion of Engels’s 200th anniversary. It consists of eleven articles that outline the relevance of Engels’s works and thought for the critical analysis of digital capitalism and show the relevance of Engels in the 21st century.
In an episode of the tripleC podcast that accompanies the special issue, Christian Fuchs introduces the relevance of Engels for the critical analysis of digital capitalism:
https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-gizhy-f336e9
Table of Contents
Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Introduction. pp. 1-14
Christian Fuchs
Engels@200: Friedrich Engels and Digital Capitalism. How Relevant Are Engels’s Works 200 Years After His Birth? pp. 15-51.
Christian Fuchs
Engels’s Theory of Social Murder and the Spectacle of Fascism: A Critical Enquiry into Digital Labour and its Alienation. pp. 52-67
Aishik Saha
Digital Capitalism and Coal Mine Workers. pp. 68-77
Akın Bakioğlu
Revisiting Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in an Age of Digital Idealism. pp. 78-96
Christopher Leslie
Break or Continuity? Friedrich Engels and the Critique of Digital Surveillance. pp. 97-112
Dimitrios Kivotidis
The Digital Economy of the Sourdough: Housewifisation and Exploitation as Self-Exploitation. pp. 113-124
Julianna Faludi and Michelle Crosby
On the Categories of Possibility, Limiting Conditions and the Qualitative Development Stages of Matter in the Thought of Friedrich Engels. pp. 125-139
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
Freedom, Distribution and Work from Home: Rereading Engels in the Time of the COVID-19-Pandemic. pp. 140-153
Saayan Chattopadhyay and Sushmita Pandit
The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class: The Continuing Relevance of Friedrich Engels to Theorising Platform Labour. pp. 154-170
Shahram Azhar
The Political Economy of Working-Class Social Media Commerce: Digital Capitalism and the Engelsian Concept of Working-Class “Property”. pp. 171-194
Suddhabrata Deb Roy