The urban field : capital and governmentality in the age of techno-monopoly / Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moisio, Sami, author.

Rossi, Ugo, 1975- author.

Series:

Urban Worlds Series

Urban worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Technological innovations.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

We live in an era of techno-monopoly power in which technocapitalism - through ubiquitous digital platforms - has colonized both the internet and key aspects of our everyday lives. Cities and larger urban and metropolitan environments have provided a fertile ground for the rise and rapid growth of this power. In <i>The Urban Field</i>, Moisio and Rossi reveal an urban monopoly capitalism supported by the 'corporatized state'. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology in four key sites: labour, human capital, startups and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that, ultimately, the urban field is a constitutively political construct that can be enacted in a different way, no longer as a value-extraction machine but as a collective endeavour aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: neo-feudalism or new monopoly capital?

Overview of the book structure

Part I – Macro-political economy of the urban field

1 The rise of the corporatized state

Introduction

The urban technological paradigm

The competition state

The corporatized state

Conclusion

2 The urban field and the strategic urbanization of the state

The urban field

On the “national” urban field

The urban field in the age of national competitiveness

Designing the Finnish nation-state as a digital space

Part II – Micro-political economy of the urban field

3 Labour

Labour as source of economic value

The quandaries of value measurability

Exploiting labour power in techno-capitalism

The blurring of rent and profit Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-78821-452-8

1-78821-453-6

OCLC:

1446131039