Cognitive Commodities and the Value-Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10487283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guido Starosta (0000-0003-0924-8339, National University of Quilmes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-392 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801 |
| Publisher | Guilford Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1521/siso.2012.76.3.365 |
| OpenAlex | W2033027411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 10 |
One of the central claims of the “post-workerist” Cognitive Capitalism approach is that the specific ontology of cognitive commodities (costless reproducibility, indivisibility, non-rivalry, etc.) contributes to the obsolescence of the Marxian “law of value” in contemporary capitalism. Although that claim is usually presented as grounded on self-evident and unproblematic facts and implications of the nature of cognitive commodities, those arguments about the crisis of the “measure of value in social labor-time” rest on a rather crude understanding of the antithetical determinations of the commodity-form as the unity of use-value and (exchange-) value. While acknowledging the descriptive validity of some of the features associated with so-called cognitive commodities, a more rigorous approach to the critique of political economy can make sense of those peculiarities through the lenses of the qualitative and quantitative determinations of the value-form that Marx presented in Capital, i.e., through the law of value
Business · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Cognition · Commodity · Economics · Epistemology · Exchange value · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Obsolescence · Ontology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 1,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |