Introduction: Politics of Sensibilities, Society 4.0 and Digital Labour
This chapter aims to offer an introductory overview in which the current contents of the research on Society 4.0, digital labour and politics of the sensibilities are exposed. The objective of this chapter is not only to provide the reader with a clear pi
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Introduction: Politics of Sensibilities, Society 4.0 and Digital Labour Adrian Scribano
The predatory expansion of capitalism on a planetary scale has generated a rapid, complex and massive articulation between the features of so-called Society 4.0, digital labour1 and a political economy of morality. Some of the features of the transformations taking place in this current social structuration process include the expansion of the revolution 4.0 and its 1 As Fuchs (2014) states, in English it is necessary to make a semantic differentiation between “work” and “labour”. In this regard, he adopts an expression that Engels formulates in a footnote in Marx’s Capital: “The English language has the advantage of possessing two separate words for these two different aspects of labour. Labour which creates use-values and is qualitatively determined is called ‘work’ as opposed to ‘labour’; labour which creates value and is only measured quantitatively is called ‘labour’, as opposed to ‘work’” (Marx 1867: 138) (in Fuchs 2014: 26). From here, Fuchs uses this distinction for discerning digital work for digital labour: “Labour is a necessarily alienated form of work, in which humans do not control and own the means and results of production. It is a historic form of the organization of work in class societies. Work in contrast is a much more general concept common to all societies. It is a process, in which humans make use of technologies for transforming nature and society in such a way that goods and services are created that satisfy human needs” (Fuchs 2014: 26–27). In the chapters of this book written by myself, in collaboration with Lisdero, and the one written by Lisdero alone, the distinction made by Fuchs has been (in general) taken into account.
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impact on productivity and labour, the massification of a political economy of morality based on non-truth, the growing number of refugees and migrants around the world, military tensions and wars of a multilateral nature. The modifications in work and its consequences in the social structure are central axes of the history of humanity: the crossing between production, needs, goods, models of work organization and wealth distribution systems have been, are and will be the constituent axes of societal forms. In the same vein, it is possible to understand how technological transformations have involved modifications in work and in social relations as a whole. These technological changes imply, in one way or another, variations in the mode by which people relate to time, space, shortage and satisfaction. In the described context it is easy to understand how and why the expansion of digital labour comes about in the context of the massification of the modifications produced by the digitalization of society, generating consequences in the politics of sensibil
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