Reading Notes – Week 8 – DYER-WITHEFORD: John Gould
While I am still reflecting on Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex, and am not entirely finished reading the first five chapters, I have taken Dyer-Witheford’s main argument to (big surprise!) revolve around this idea of the vortex and how it is altering the middle class. Dyer-Witheford argues that capitalist production is best characterized as a spiral that is “self-expanding in value, taking the form of commodities, exchange into money, then re-coalescing as new objects and actions to be in turn volatilized into yet more money” (p. 22) To me, this is such a brilliant use of a metaphor which simultaneously acts as a perfect frame of reference for what Nick Dyer-Witheford
While I am still reflecting on Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex, and am not entirely finished reading the first five chapters, I have taken Dyer-Witheford’s main argument to (big surprise!) revolve around this idea of the vortex and how it is altering the middle class. Dyer-Witheford argues that capitalist production is best characterized as a spiral that is “self-expanding in value, taking the form of commodities, exchange into money, then re-coalescing as new objects and actions to be in turn volatilized into yet more money” (p. 22) To me, this is such a brilliant use of a metaphor which simultaneously acts as a perfect frame of reference for what Nick Dyer-Witheford