Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism, edited by
Christian Fuchs, special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism &
Critique
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/43
The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique’s special
issue “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism”
was published on the occasion of Engels’s 200th anniversary. It consists
of eleven articles that outline the relevance of Engels’s works and
thought for the critical analysis of digital capitalism and show the
relevance of Engels in the 21st century.
In an episode of the tripleC podcast that accompanies the special issue,
Christian Fuchs introduces the relevance of Engels for the critical
analysis of digital capitalism:
https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-gizhy-f336e9
Table of Contents
Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism.
Introduction. pp. 1-14
Christian Fuchs
Engels@200: Friedrich Engels and Digital Capitalism. How Relevant Are
Engels’s Works
200 Years After His Birth? pp. 15-51.
Christian Fuchs
Engels’s Theory of Social Murder and the Spectacle of Fascism: A Critical
Enquiry into Digital Labour and its Alienation. pp. 52-67
Aishik Saha
Digital Capitalism and Coal Mine Workers. pp. 68-77
Akın Bakioğlu
Revisiting Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in an Age of Digital
Idealism. pp. 78-96
Christopher Leslie
Break or Continuity? Friedrich Engels and the Critique of Digital
Surveillance. pp. 97-112
Dimitrios Kivotidis
The Digital Economy of the Sourdough: Housewifisation and Exploitation
as Self-Exploitation. pp. 113-124
Julianna Faludi and Michelle Crosby
On the Categories of Possibility, Limiting Conditions and the
Qualitative Development Stages
of Matter in the Thought of Friedrich Engels. pp. 125-139
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
Freedom, Distribution and Work from Home: Rereading Engels in the Time
of the COVID-19-Pandemic. pp. 140-153
Saayan Chattopadhyay and Sushmita Pandit
The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class: The Continuing
Relevance of
Friedrich Engels to Theorising Platform Labour. pp. 154-170
Shahram Azhar
The Political Economy of Working-Class Social Media Commerce: Digital
Capitalism and
the Engelsian Concept of Working-Class “Property”. pp. 171-194
Suddhabrata Deb Roy