Capital and Affects: The Politics of the Language Economy

by Christian Marazzi

Christian Marazzi's first book: a post-Fordist classic on the roots to economic crises in the contemporary age.

Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the processes of production. While the assembly line (invented by Henry Ford at the beginning of the last century) excluded any form of linguistic productivity, today, there is no production without communication. The new technologies are linguistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584351039
• ISBN13: 9781584351030
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher