![]() ![]() ![]() An expounding on her earlier essay “The Hacker Manifesto,” Wark takes a deep dive into the ways in which information technology has been shaping our lives and creeping into every facet of our being. This is the controversial and thrilling thesis explored by Mckenzie Wark in her work “Capital is Dead, is this Something Worse?” from Verso Books. ![]() However, in creating these new, sweeping networks of trade, western capitalists unintentionally fostered the rise of a new mode of production centered around the control of information: vectoralism, which has now subsumed capitalism as the dominant mode of production. In the 1980s, western capital owners moved to defeat the rising labor movements in the United States and Europe through the process of globalization, the opening up of global trade and the transference of industry to developing nations, in an attempt to side-step the power of domestic labor entirely. ![]()
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