Technocapitalism : a critical perspective on technological innovation and corporatism / Luis Suarez-Villa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suarez-Villa, Luis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Economics--Political aspects.

Economics.

Corporations--Social aspects.

Corporations.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new version of capitalism, grounded in technology and science, is spawning new forms of corporate power and organization that will have major implications for the twenty-first century. Technological creativity is thereby turned into a commodity in new corporate regimes that are primarily oriented toward research and intellectual appropriation. This phenomenon is likely to have major social, economic, and political consequences, as the new corporatism becomes ever more intrusive and rapacious through its control over technology and innovation.In his provocative book Technocapital

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Experimentalism; Society as Laboratory; Accumulation and Power; Experimentalism as System; Conclusion; Creativity as a Commodity; Creativity versus Commodification; Utility and Value; Reproduction and Commodification; Commodification as Process; Conclusion; Networks as Mediators; Network Extent; Hierarchies and Control; Power and Inequity; Change over Change; Conclusion; Decomposing the Corporation; Networks versus the Corporation; Decomposition and Power; Pathology of Decomposition; Conclusion; Experimentalist Organizations; Systematized Research Regimes

Collaboration and PowerPathological Pursuits; Conclusion; Challenges; Downfall of Public Democracy; Hegemony of Corporatism; Empowering Creativity; Rediscovering the Social; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612310980

9781282310988

1282310984

9781439900444

1439900442

OCLC:

489150755