TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phil Graham
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Hypercapitalism
T2  - New Media, Language, and Social Perceptions of Value
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100246
N2  - Every day trillions of dollars circulate the globe in a digital data space and new forms of property and ownership emerge. Massive corporate entities with a global reach are formed and disappear with breathtaking speed, making and breaking personal fortunes the size of which defy imagination. Fictitious commodities abound. The genomes of entire nations have become corporately owned. Relationships have become the overt basis of economic wealth and political power. Hypercapitalism explores the problems of understanding this emergent form of global political economic organization by focusing on the internal relations between language, new media networks, and social perceptions of value. Taking an historical approach informed by Marx, Phil Graham draws upon writings in political economy, media studies, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and critical social science to understand the development, roots, and trajectory of the global system in which every possible aspect of human existence, including imagined futures, has become a commodity form.
KW  - New Economy, Political economy, Marx, Karl, Historical materialism, Value science, Arbeitswerttheorie, New media
LA  - English
ER  -