Sebastian Sevignani
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277833 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sebastian Sevignani |
| NOMBRES | Sebastian |
| APELLIDO | Sevignani |
| FIRMA | SEVIGNANI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-0952 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Zur (Re-)Artikulation des Kapitalismus durch digitale Regulationstechnologien
In dem Beitrag bestimme ich die Rolle digitaler Technologien im Kapitalismus produktivkrafttheoretisch mit Bezug auf die Tätigkeitstheorie als Regulationstechnologien, die heute als Lernmaschinen in großen Datensätzen Regelmäßigkeiten erkennen, vorhersagen und produzieren können. Dies erlaubt die innere Artikulation des Kapitalismus – vertikal zwischen einem »Anti-Markt«, der sich über die marktvermittelte und moralische Ökonomie erhebt und horiz…
The common production of economic advantages
Commenting on recent ‘neo-feudal’ tendencies of upward distribution, this article examines information-based rentiership with an approach inspired by Marxian labour and rent theory. We propose that rent extraction in the information economy cannot be reduced to gains from intellectual property or platform market power alone, but also hinges on productive advantages conditioned by various forms of human activity. Unlike land rent, these advantages…
Capitalisme et publicité contestée. Une conversation avec Nancy Fraserespace public, contre-public, hégémonie, capitalisme, classe, race, intersectionnalité, réseaux sociaux, plateforme
À la suite d’un atelier consacré à la réinvention de l’espace public (« Wildening the Public Sphere ») avec Nancy Fraser, organisé au Berlin Centre for Social Critique en juin 2022, nous avons eu l’opportunité de prolonger la discussion lors d’un échange par visioconférence en novembre de la même année. Notre discussion a commencé par l’analyse des liens entre les « contre-publics subalternes » et le « public en général », portant notamment sur l…
Kapitalismus und umkämpfte Öffentlichkeit. Ein Gespräch mit Nancy Fraser
Nach einem Workshop zum Thema „The struggle over the public sphere“ mit Nancy Fraser am Berliner Center for Social Critique im Juni 2022 ergab sich im November des gleichen Jahres die Möglichkeit, die Diskussion mit ihr fortzusetzen. Das nachfolgend dokumentierte Gespräch beleuchtet das Verhältnis zwischen den „subalternen Gegenöffentlichkeiten“ und der Öffentlichkeit im Allgemeinen, den Aufstieg rechter Gegenöffentlichkeiten und die Auswirkungen…
Introduction to the special issue
Despite property being a basic institution in capitalist societies it is rarely addressed directly and seldomly linked to media transformation outside of critical scholarship. This introduction gives an overview over the contributions in this special issue. The special issue is part of a revived interest in property in the social sciences and goes back to an intensive paper workshop hosted by this journal, which took place at the Vienna Universit…
Media property
Ownership has been a core research theme in parts of media and communication science since its establishment as a distinct research field. In particular, scholars in the field of political economy of the media, media sociology and media industry studies typically pay close attention to the role ownership has on various media and communication processes. In this article, we argue, however, that media ownership has been treated largely as a black b…
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser
Following a workshop on ‘Wildening the public sphere’ with Nancy Fraser at the Berlin Centre for Social Critique in June 2022, we had the chance to continue the discussion via Zoom in November 2022. We start by illuminating the relation between ‘subaltern counterpublics’ and the public-at-large, the rise of right-wing counterpublics and the impact of so-called ‘social media’ on the public sphere. That brings us to the question how publics are sit…
The proletarian public sphere revisited
In this contribution, we argue that critical theories of the public sphere (in Habermas, but also in Negt and Kluge as well as Fraser) leave out the socially central field of labour and labour-political disputes, and that a reactualization and refocusing becomes necessary: We define the dynamics of globalization, commodification and digitalization as sequences of a renewed structural transformation of both social self-understanding and gainful em…
The public sphere and democracy in transformation
All the aspects and dimensions that can be rightfully identified as playing essential parts within the current tragedy of democracy do share a common reference point: the public sphere. In the absence of a public sphere, no political change can take place democratically. This introduction to the special issue, which continues the debate about the public sphere from a broadly understood critical theory perspective, tries to substantiate the two in…
Communicative Activity
This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology of media and communication by making use of the cultural-historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance in digital capitalism and the blurring of production and Internet usage. The paper first revisits Habermas's influential notion of communicative action and agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an alternative, more promising way of theorising bec…
Proletarische Öffentlichkeit revisited
Im Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass kritische Öffentlichkeitstheorien (bei Habermas, aber auch bei Negt und Kluge sowie Fraser) das gesellschaftlich-zentrale Feld der Arbeit und arbeitspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen aussparen und eine Reaktualisierung und Re-Fokussierung nötig wird: Wir bestimmen die Dynamiken von Globalisierung, Kommodifizierung und Digitalisierung als Sequenzen eines erneuten Strukturwandels sowohl gesellschaftlicher Selbstver…
Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology
As someone who works interdisciplinarily between media and communication studies and sociology with an overall interest in critical social theory, Habermas' "most successful" (Habermas, 2022a, p. 145) book is important in at least three respects: He develops a normative, critical concept of the public sphere and the formation of public opinion, which aims at democratizing domination, that is ties it to a process of unrestricted discussion of ques…
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction
The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing - this is how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas's monumental study on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words. In the fields of political sociology and social theory, history, but also research on social movements, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, his conception of the public sphere as a sphere m…
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere
This paper elaborates on a theory of the ideological public sphere in the age of digital media. It describes the public sphere as an initially ascending and then descending communication process that includes both polarising and integrating publics, which are organised by antagonistic media and compromise-building mass media. This framework allows us to distinguish between hegemonic, populist, and popular-oriented flows of communication, as well …
Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit?
The public sphere is important for democracy and it is changing. Its current development is taking place at the point where three sequences of institutional change meet and interact: globalisation, commodification and the digitalisation of social dimensions. The contributions to this volume examine these developments in discussion with the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas, who presents his own reflections on a renewed structural transforma…
Online Privacy Paradox and Social Networks
Introduction
In 1845, Karl Marx (1845, 571) formulated the 11th Feuerbach Thesis: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” Today, interpreting the world has become an important form of labour that is expressed on and with the help of digital media. In this context it has become common to talk about digital labour and virtual work. Yet the changes that digital, social, and mobile media bring about in the wo…
What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media
This paper deals with the questions: What is digital labour? What is digital work? Based on Marx’s theory, we distinguish between work and labour as anthropological and historical forms of human activity. The notion of alienated labour is grounded in a general model of the work process that is conceptualized based on a dialectic of subject and object in the economy that we present in the form of a model, the Hegelian-Marxist dialectical triangle …
The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora
In this paper, l examine the alternative social networking site Diaspora* from a Marxist standpoint. The investigation focuses on privacy, and contributes to a better understanding of this issue within the context of capitalism in general. First, I describe Diaspora*’s way of production by pointing out its alternative character as part of the free software and copyleft movement. Second, dominant theories of privacy related to individual control, …
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction
The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing - this is how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas's monumental study on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words. In the fields of political sociology and social theory, history, but also research on social movements, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, his conception of the public sphere as a sphere m…
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere
This paper elaborates on a theory of the ideological public sphere in the age of digital media. It describes the public sphere as an initially ascending and then descending communication process that includes both polarising and integrating publics, which are organised by antagonistic media and compromise-building mass media. This framework allows us to distinguish between hegemonic, populist, and popular-oriented flows of communication, as well …
The public sphere and democracy in transformation
All the aspects and dimensions that can be rightfully identified as playing essential parts within the current tragedy of democracy do share a common reference point: the public sphere. In the absence of a public sphere, no political change can take place democratically. This introduction to the special issue, which continues the debate about the public sphere from a broadly understood critical theory perspective, tries to substantiate the two in…
Media property
Ownership has been a core research theme in parts of media and communication science since its establishment as a distinct research field. In particular, scholars in the field of political economy of the media, media sociology and media industry studies typically pay close attention to the role ownership has on various media and communication processes. In this article, we argue, however, that media ownership has been treated largely as a black b…
Communicative Activity
This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology of media and communication by making use of the cultural-historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance in digital capitalism and the blurring of production and Internet usage. The paper first revisits Habermas's influential notion of communicative action and agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an alternative, more promising way of theorising bec…
Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology
As someone who works interdisciplinarily between media and communication studies and sociology with an overall interest in critical social theory, Habermas' "most successful" (Habermas, 2022a, p. 145) book is important in at least three respects: He develops a normative, critical concept of the public sphere and the formation of public opinion, which aims at democratizing domination, that is ties it to a process of unrestricted discussion of ques…
The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora
In this paper, l examine the alternative social networking site Diaspora* from a Marxist standpoint. The investigation focuses on privacy, and contributes to a better understanding of this issue within the context of capitalism in general. First, I describe Diaspora*’s way of production by pointing out its alternative character as part of the free software and copyleft movement. Second, dominant theories of privacy related to individual control, …
What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media
This paper deals with the questions: What is digital labour? What is digital work? Based on Marx’s theory, we distinguish between work and labour as anthropological and historical forms of human activity. The notion of alienated labour is grounded in a general model of the work process that is conceptualized based on a dialectic of subject and object in the economy that we present in the form of a model, the Hegelian-Marxist dialectical triangle …
Online Privacy Paradox and Social Networks
Introduction
In 1845, Karl Marx (1845, 571) formulated the 11th Feuerbach Thesis: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” Today, interpreting the world has become an important form of labour that is expressed on and with the help of digital media. In this context it has become common to talk about digital labour and virtual work. Yet the changes that digital, social, and mobile media bring about in the wo…
Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit?
The public sphere is important for democracy and it is changing. Its current development is taking place at the point where three sequences of institutional change meet and interact: globalisation, commodification and the digitalisation of social dimensions. The contributions to this volume examine these developments in discussion with the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas, who presents his own reflections on a renewed structural transforma…
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? An Introduction
The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing - this is how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas's monumental study on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words. In the fields of political sociology and social theory, history, but also research on social movements, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, his conception of the public sphere as a sphere m…
Digital Transformations and the Ideological Formation of the Public Sphere
This paper elaborates on a theory of the ideological public sphere in the age of digital media. It describes the public sphere as an initially ascending and then descending communication process that includes both polarising and integrating publics, which are organised by antagonistic media and compromise-building mass media. This framework allows us to distinguish between hegemonic, populist, and popular-oriented flows of communication, as well …
Proletarische Öffentlichkeit revisited
Im Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass kritische Öffentlichkeitstheorien (bei Habermas, aber auch bei Negt und Kluge sowie Fraser) das gesellschaftlich-zentrale Feld der Arbeit und arbeitspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen aussparen und eine Reaktualisierung und Re-Fokussierung nötig wird: Wir bestimmen die Dynamiken von Globalisierung, Kommodifizierung und Digitalisierung als Sequenzen eines erneuten Strukturwandels sowohl gesellschaftlicher Selbstver…
Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology
As someone who works interdisciplinarily between media and communication studies and sociology with an overall interest in critical social theory, Habermas' "most successful" (Habermas, 2022a, p. 145) book is important in at least three respects: He develops a normative, critical concept of the public sphere and the formation of public opinion, which aims at democratizing domination, that is ties it to a process of unrestricted discussion of ques…
Capitalisme et publicité contestée. Une conversation avec Nancy Fraserespace public, contre-public, hégémonie, capitalisme, classe, race, intersectionnalité, réseaux sociaux, plateforme
À la suite d’un atelier consacré à la réinvention de l’espace public (« Wildening the Public Sphere ») avec Nancy Fraser, organisé au Berlin Centre for Social Critique en juin 2022, nous avons eu l’opportunité de prolonger la discussion lors d’un échange par visioconférence en novembre de la même année. Notre discussion a commencé par l’analyse des liens entre les « contre-publics subalternes » et le « public en général », portant notamment sur l…
Kapitalismus und umkämpfte Öffentlichkeit. Ein Gespräch mit Nancy Fraser
Nach einem Workshop zum Thema „The struggle over the public sphere“ mit Nancy Fraser am Berliner Center for Social Critique im Juni 2022 ergab sich im November des gleichen Jahres die Möglichkeit, die Diskussion mit ihr fortzusetzen. Das nachfolgend dokumentierte Gespräch beleuchtet das Verhältnis zwischen den „subalternen Gegenöffentlichkeiten“ und der Öffentlichkeit im Allgemeinen, den Aufstieg rechter Gegenöffentlichkeiten und die Auswirkungen…
Introduction to the special issue
Despite property being a basic institution in capitalist societies it is rarely addressed directly and seldomly linked to media transformation outside of critical scholarship. This introduction gives an overview over the contributions in this special issue. The special issue is part of a revived interest in property in the social sciences and goes back to an intensive paper workshop hosted by this journal, which took place at the Vienna Universit…
Media property
Ownership has been a core research theme in parts of media and communication science since its establishment as a distinct research field. In particular, scholars in the field of political economy of the media, media sociology and media industry studies typically pay close attention to the role ownership has on various media and communication processes. In this article, we argue, however, that media ownership has been treated largely as a black b…
Capitalism and contested publicity. A conversation with Nancy Fraser
Following a workshop on ‘Wildening the public sphere’ with Nancy Fraser at the Berlin Centre for Social Critique in June 2022, we had the chance to continue the discussion via Zoom in November 2022. We start by illuminating the relation between ‘subaltern counterpublics’ and the public-at-large, the rise of right-wing counterpublics and the impact of so-called ‘social media’ on the public sphere. That brings us to the question how publics are sit…
The proletarian public sphere revisited
In this contribution, we argue that critical theories of the public sphere (in Habermas, but also in Negt and Kluge as well as Fraser) leave out the socially central field of labour and labour-political disputes, and that a reactualization and refocusing becomes necessary: We define the dynamics of globalization, commodification and digitalization as sequences of a renewed structural transformation of both social self-understanding and gainful em…
The public sphere and democracy in transformation
All the aspects and dimensions that can be rightfully identified as playing essential parts within the current tragedy of democracy do share a common reference point: the public sphere. In the absence of a public sphere, no political change can take place democratically. This introduction to the special issue, which continues the debate about the public sphere from a broadly understood critical theory perspective, tries to substantiate the two in…
Communicative Activity
This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology of media and communication by making use of the cultural-historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance in digital capitalism and the blurring of production and Internet usage. The paper first revisits Habermas's influential notion of communicative action and agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an alternative, more promising way of theorising bec…
The common production of economic advantages
Commenting on recent ‘neo-feudal’ tendencies of upward distribution, this article examines information-based rentiership with an approach inspired by Marxian labour and rent theory. We propose that rent extraction in the information economy cannot be reduced to gains from intellectual property or platform market power alone, but also hinges on productive advantages conditioned by various forms of human activity. Unlike land rent, these advantages…
Zur (Re-)Artikulation des Kapitalismus durch digitale Regulationstechnologien
In dem Beitrag bestimme ich die Rolle digitaler Technologien im Kapitalismus produktivkrafttheoretisch mit Bezug auf die Tätigkeitstheorie als Regulationstechnologien, die heute als Lernmaschinen in großen Datensätzen Regelmäßigkeiten erkennen, vorhersagen und produzieren können. Dies erlaubt die innere Artikulation des Kapitalismus – vertikal zwischen einem »Anti-Markt«, der sich über die marktvermittelte und moralische Ökonomie erhebt und horiz…
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