Kapitalaffekt

• Published in: Springerin (Wien) 2014-10 (4), p.32
• Main Author: Stakemeier, Kerstin
• Format: Article
• Language: ger
• ISSN: 1029-1830

Capitalism got the first name "cognitive" not so long ago, at the beginning of the new millennium, when, in the midst of the dot-com bubble, the digitalization of capitalist (re)production seemed to turn from a resubjectivating to a reobjectifying factor. What had been discussed in the 1990s by the former comrades-in-arms of the Autonomia Operaia movement such as Maurizio Lazzarato as "immaterial work", as the differentiation of human productive forces, was transformed by some of them, such as Yann Moulier Boutang, in the 2000s. years to “cognitive capitalism”. What had previously been viewed as the subjectification of forms of work was now viewed as the objectification of these forms of work. What had been discussed in relation to the "real subsumption" of work by Antonio Negri as the individuation of the "General Intellect", which Karl Marx still assumed was in the machines, now manifested itself - so to speak as the return of the "formal subsumption" of this individuated "General Intellect". ", for example with Carlo Vercellone or Paolo Virno4 - in a synthesis crisis of capital.