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This s not to say captast producton never createsgoods that wOuld be desrable outsde ts logic ur socetyproduces a tremendous surplus beyond what we need to

survive; uc of ts takes te form of use toos, enjoyabe luxures expandng knowedge of te cosmos. Buttese goods aso functon as staus sybols establshingheraces and strating power-his expans desgnerclqng d ser ous8? that s empty most of the earThey serve to make socally produced eultes concrete

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spartes n power In only te very wealthy adautomobles by tere was roughy one passenger carpe eeven peope wodwde f y ou measre uty of lfestrctly in terms o access to mateia goods mos peopleshoud be better o now Yet havng to st n trac to andfrom work and the grocery store every day s not exacty

an mprovement for te vast majorty wtness the retuof te mddle class to dense urban aeas where cars arelss essenta Te cass that had automobes in = nowhas prvate ets and al of those vehces e posoning teatmospere at a unprecedented pacewe te peopewo suer most om the conseuences of al this si can'taord cars.

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to e on e clocThe le eween prodcon and consmpton s lrrng as new sectors o the econoy asor he worke'sentre beng nto he task o prodcng vle For examplen pdatng her onlne prole a stden adds content tohe neet n a wa that prodces weh or a compayseng onne advesements

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a modest pot now they want anyone to come see themprm they have o pay o o pocket to record songs topt p on he neet ree o chage essentally smttnga demo drecy to he pblcrather han o corporate recordabels Alhs ee content adds vale o he eet tsefng the pockets o echnology mgnates lke Bl Gaes

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Once eveyone has been pressed into te marke newdynics emerge. As production incrases suiva iselfis sujec to a kid of ination: i takes more and more

resources o pricipae in soci e A few ceries agopeasa farers ony reied o he exchge ecoy fora few specic goods; they cod grow veryhing ese heyneeded hoe or er wh heir eighors or i Today'scosuer ust have a ce phone a eevsion, a copuera ca a ank account and credi insuance and a great de

ore o ake par society e aoe wed any uece i If a peas aer had racosy coe o possessay of hese he wod have ee ich u todays cosercan have the ad s e poor his iato produces acass �f peope who ae excuded o sety in he dstof a great aundace of goods

he sae dynac pays ou o he eve o naios ad

peopes Whe oe society is scramng o out-producead ouinve their eighors i order o conquer or at

east ro o the eveyone ese has o sh o keep up;ho wats to ed up poor ad expoited? This pressureas behind much of e destructive idustriaization of"deveopg naos

Havng ecoe erchadise heseves workers consue erchadise o exert power he oy way hey can.ce tere is nohg o copre i agains prchasigceses o e a ecessay e ad ecoes a sacred ct ithe reigion of capits i which cia power is eqaewit social vaue d spending is tus proof of wo it is

a for of counon he sore is he epe n which theac of yg s he cosers pace i sociey Muchof our eisure te is ade up ofs in which spedigmoney isef is he po is wha quaes a acivty ashaving a good time or going on a date.

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expasio reached ts mits, capitasts shed to diversg

cosmer optos; cosequenty the rebelos scltes

that had arse reacto to mass socey were trsfomed

to market ches. Promotg idvdalty d "diereceecme a fomla by whch to exted cosmesm hr

ad ther, captalzg o the very dscotet t prodced.

Today there's a prodct le for evy dety-for every

etc grop sexal preferece ad poitca posto.

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dettes they sppemet: whe the pop star sgs aot

what he lkes a woma he sgs abot her perme her

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eghbrhoods are geted ot o estece ad rebelios

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ay socia ody tat assues a radica cocepto of its

terests s ispersed as swly as possie erhaps this

expis why opposio to captlsm s spreag as adeologc dety bt dmishg as a orce i stggles

over prodcto nd physcal terrtoy Resstace ist m

OSSle der these codios bt it has to asse ew

forms. Most of the recet iovaos resistce tactics

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the root of he problem s reabsored to the ctioig o

he maret rage agaist specc sptoms of capitism

has geerated eicl cosmesm, whic oy sees to

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Taken as a whole the media nctions as a sort o colectivelyproduced mental weather. Media transorms experience,memory, and communication into something snthetic andexterna, though technologca progess is rapdly integatingthis exeal terran into our sense o sel Books, recordings,movies rado, elevision inteet, mobile phones: each of

these successive innovations has penetrated deeper into dailylie, mediating an ever geater propoion o our experience

Mass media arose alongside mass production standardizing he low o iormation and producing commonreerence points or millions o consumers Adverisng isjust one example o how this was essential or establishing

the mass market shaping the bying habits o those on thebusness end o the assembly line Corporatons stll treatthe social body a peti dsh in which tastes are cuturedlike actera, using everything rom psychology to avantgarde aesthetics he eects have spilled over nto everyoher aspect o e; or example, politicians ncreasingy selltheselves like products, treang voters as consumers whwant to know ha's fo hem

Until the end o the 20 centuy, mass media was essentialy unidrectona, with ormaton lowing one wayand atention lwing the other Criics generay ocusedon ths aspec o ts stcture, charging hat t gave a smlcabl tremendous inluence over sociey while ioblz-

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ing everyone else as specators. In onas, dergroundmedia explored more pricipao and decenrazed forms

Paipaion and decenraiaon suddeny became

masream wh he ariva of widey aessible gialmeda In many ways he nerne oered a iberag adempowerng ea or new modes o ommcaion Thebasi model was developed by acade resechers who}ew heir ndig om he mili raher an he rvaesecor so i was desgned o be usel raher h proableTo hs day, much of he inerne remains a sor of Wid Wes

in wh i's u o eforce raon propey awsThe ab o share conen eely and ely mong usershas had a emendous mpa on seeral ndusres wheoaborave omas suh as Wpea d open-sourcesware show ho easy peope an mee er needswhou privae propey Coporaons are s srambng

gure ou how o make money on he ee beyondoine sores and adversingYe as more d more of our ves beome digized s

impon no o ae i for raned ha his is ways for hebes apasm hves by absorbng aspes o he worldha were one ee d hen oeing aess o hem a ape and hs prce s no ways exaed n dolas

We shoud be especay aene o he ways new medae cnvenen: convenene can be a sgn ha he eposibiies of huan lfe are being foibly nrrowed dowIndeed heseiovaions re bey even oponl: nowadayss cu o maina iendshps o ge hed wihou a cell·phone More and more of our mena roesses ad soci

ves ms pass hough he medaion of ehnooies hamap o aes d eaonshpsJor oporaions as welas goemen egence hese omas aso shape heonen o hose acvies and eaonshps.

The neworks oered by Faceboo aren new; whasnew is ha hey seem exeal o us Weve lways had soc

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networks, but no one could use them to sel adversements.

Now they reappear as someting we have to const People

corresponded with od ieds augh themselves skls d

head about public evens long before em Google adTwitter. Of course these technologies e exemely help

in a wod in whch ew of us e cose wth o neighbors

o spend more than a few years n any location The forms

assumed by tecology ad daily ie inluence each oher

mag it increasgly unikable to uncouple them

noher eet of digtal echnology is a sort of ormaon

naton There's more ad moe data the world, cmng

a us faser and faster Tis causes actua depreciation: fo

example e-shag ad free access hae diven dow the

one prces of movies ad musc. It so sorens o atte

ion spans Above tough it means that we invest his

iormation with less and less meann.Wee more equipped

h ever to del with the h of le but at sea as to the hyAs our ned for and access to informaion ncrease

beyond he scope of aig we coud teaze informa

in seems o become separate om us Tis s suspiciously

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sar to the sepraon requred to rnsfo workes intoconsuers. The iolaton on the tee is not entireyfree-computers and ntee access cos money, not to

mention the eectrica nd environent costs of producng these nd g serers laround he word. nd whacoporations gre out how to charge us more for accesso a hese tecoogies once we've become totay dependent on hem? If hey c�, not ony power d knowedgebut een the aby to maain soci ties wi be rectyconngent on weath

But ths coud be he wrong hing to watch out fordmoney congomeraes may no be abe o consoidaepower this new terrn The ways capitaism coonzesour es a digta technoogies may not resembe the odfOs of coonizaion

Le any pyramid scheme captaism has to expand

constany, absorbing new resouces and subjects. It areadyeends across the entire panet; the n ar of coozaion is beg foughta the foot of the Himayas the eyedge of the word theory, it shoud e abou o coapsenow that t has n ou of horons But wha if it cod goon expanng io us d these new tecooes were e the Na, Pinta, and Sa Mra ndng on the continentof ou ow menta processes d soc ies?

n this account, the teet coud ction as anothersuccessie ayer of ienaon buit on the materia economyIf a great dea of what is aiabe on the teet is ee ofcharge, ts is not ust because the process of coonizaon snot yet compete but so because the detenant crency

n he meda is not dors aeo Atenon nctons the informaon economy the same way cono of materresouces ncons n the inustri economy. Een atenon doest stany sate to income oe, it can hepsecue t one. As curences, aenon nd capit behaedierety but they boh see o create power mbnces

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What s apta, reay? One you strp away the superst-ons hat me it seem le a fore of naue, ts esenaya soa onst hat enables some peope to amass power.

Whout the noon of prvate propery whh is only "realnsof as eveyone abdes by t matera resoces odtnton as apita. ths regard property rghts ere thesame pUose that the noton of dvine gh o ngs used to:both form the foundation of systems assging soveregnySome peope believe paionatey n propery rights even as

those rghts e sed to sp the of any uene

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d be sd hat hese peope e unde e spell of proper.Smiay when an advetisng agent sets ou to make a

me me go ra you oud say she s trying to cas a spelf attenton s the eny o he meda gnng t s a way to ause peope to buy teay and guratvey nto a powerstrtue. The determnant fator s not whether peope

gree with or approve of what they see but to what exentt shapes ther behaor

Dgta meda appea to have deentralized attentionbut they are aso standardzing the venues through whht ruaes Bewe entes that mass attenton even they neve onver t to nana assets he rea power

of Googe d Faebook sn't n ther an hodngs butn the ways they sruture the ow of formaton

hs isnt a rtsm of teoogy per se. he pont s that its not neutra tehnoogy s aways shaped by thestrtres of the soey n wh t s deveoped and apped. Most of the tehnooges famar to us were shaped

by he mperatves of prot but a soety based on othervaues od sey produe othe tehnooges As dgta tehnoogy beomes inreasngy enmeshed the fabr ohs soety the most mpornt queston s not whether touse t but how to undemne the sures that prded

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In the Iformation Age, inviuals are treated ess as physica oies than as assemie of ata. Whether you ca get your gas tue on epens ore on your creit hisory thanhow uch cash you have i your wet, et aone how co

you are; the same goes for whether you can oar airpanes,cross borers, get hire, rent an apamen, or uy a house.We can e hacke, eite, even erase; ientity the hasrepace kdnapping. Our esh-anoo estence is annconvenient appenage to the recors ep y octors,corporations schoos, anks an feera agents

ths egr, the projectons of ourseves tha appearn soca networking eia n't est outsie he econoy,ut as exensions of it Rsus arent ust for empoyersanyorewe make them for atng an for makng friens,

too, an our empoyers const these new rsums in turn.A facsimie of the entre wor is ein constucte:

patents for genetc ateri, copyrights for ieas an work, c ogs for conversatins, test scores for knowege,mp3s for songs. These are eing mappe an coe fo theconvenience of the aret n the forces that pose it. this facsmie is suppang ther forms of reaity chdenpay nteractive onine games rather than rnng arounoutsie ecosystes e wrecke to power nteet servers.

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This manests itself in the formats we use to record data.

For example, in the shi to digital technology an innite

range of variation is translated nto binary code. Convertng

a unique signal into ones and zeros gives the impression thateveryhng can be reduced to a sum of nterchangeable units

in accordance wih the same logic that quanties material

wealth in dollars. Insofar as we must place a dollar price on

the hours of our lives hman potential itsel is reated as

though it has an abstract echange value

But everything is not interchangeable; some exchanges

ae a one-way path We can sell the hous of our lives for

money but we can't buy them back with the wages we re

ceive. We can consume representations of the experiences

we wish to have, but this is not he same as livng them. We

can construct images of ourselves but doing so takes the

place of other ways o beg ourse ves-even if we identi

with our grade point averages and credit scores, we still gothrough life as bodies of lesh and bood.

The notion that everyhng is interchangeabe has spread

thoughout our society or example, some believe that the

solution to soaing greeouse gas emissions is to estabish

a market in carbon credits and osets in which corporations

buy and sel the right to emt cabon diode Ts policy sees

ndividual trees as literay interchangeable cutng down

an oldgrowth rainforest is ne so long as someone replaces

it elsewher�, even if the replacement is a homogeneos

corporate tree farm on the other side of he planet.

Likewise, some arge that the transition from print to

elecronic media is good for the envronment But the desire

to protect specic individual forests has more in commonwih th attachment to specic individual books than it does

with the idea that whole ibraries can be digitized wthout

any oss. A database is not the sae as a book coection.

Anyone who doesn't get this is looking at the word through

a lens of abstactionthe same way a tmber company does.

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