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talked about even a few years ago, has given way to the
information highway’s brutal realities: coltan mines in
the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated
neighborhoods in Detroit. In<span
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text-decoration: none;">ion through an unsparing
analysis of class power and computerization. He reveals
how technology facilitates growing polarization between
wealthy elites and precarious workers and how class
dominates everything from expanding online surveillance
to intensifying robotization. At the same time he looks
at possibilities for information technology within
radical movements, casting contemporary economic and
social struggles in the blue glow of the computer
screen.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyber-Proletariat</i><span
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analysis to bear on a range of modern informational
technologies. The result is a book indispensable to
social theorists and hacktivists alike and essential
reading for anyone who wants to understand how Silicon
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Nick
Dyer-Witheford’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyber-Proletariat</i><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tracks the
eddies and flows of the perfect storm that is
contemporary capitalism. This panoramic work reveals the
relentless force of material destruction and brutal
violence concealed by the sleek surfaces of digital
culture. Not without hope, Dyer-Witheford offers a
clear-eyed reflection on the conditions facing the
global proletariat in its struggle to win a better
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“In <i
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyber-Proletariat</i>, Dyer-Witheford teases
out the tensions between new communization and
autonomist Marxist theories to portray the struggles of
workers along the entire global capitalist commodity
chain. An epic story, it is two parts the unending
battle against capitalist cyber-vampires, and one part
the Wizard of Oz- like alliance of ‘all who care for one
another and for the world.’”<br style="margin: 0px;
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Nick
Dyer-Witheford follows up his
now-classic Cyber-Marx with a synoptic view of the
relationship between the poles of the contemporary
global proletariat from the Turkish miners killed in a
shaft collapse to the highly paid "hackers" in Silicon
Valley.<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cyber-Proletariat</i> is
rich in empirical detail and has a wide theoretical
horizon. You will find in these pages workers in Foxconn
contemplating suicide cheek-by-jowl with the Gezi Park
demonstrators protesting the enclosure of a public park
to build a shopping mall. It is written with
Dyer-Witherford's well-known eloquence and passion.
Cyber-proletarians should thank him for writing it and
get it.”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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