Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces

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Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces is written by Sabine Pfeiffer and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3732858936 (ISBN 10) and 9783732858934 (ISBN 13).

Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation – it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.