Cyber-Marx : cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism / Nick Dyer-Witheford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Differences -- Revolutions -- Marxisms -- Cycles -- Circuits -- Planets -- Postmodernists -- Alternatives -- Intellects.

In this [book, the author] assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. [The author] maps the dynamics of postmodern capitalism, showing how it depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities. Today, this circuit passes through robotized factories, interactive media, virtual classrooms, biotechnological laboratories, in vitro fertilization clinics, hazardous waste sites, and out into the global networks of cyberspace. [This book] shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated points of resistance to connect with one another. [The author] predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism - sustained by the resources of the information revolution - that will facilitate a collective, communist transformation of society.