Jamie Woodcock

Marx at the Arcade

Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle

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More people are playing video games than ever before, and yet much of the work of their production remains obscured to us. Deploying a Marxist approach, Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry, unravelling the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose material and immaterial labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Beyond this, the book analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism, and the broader transformations of work and economy that it embodies. Woodcock also presents game-play itself not as a de… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60846-867-6
EAN: 9781608468676
Produktnummer: 34556660
Verlag: Haymarket Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the award-winning Working the Phones (2016). He is on the editorial board of the Historical Materialism and an editor of Notes from Below, an online journal of workers' inquiry.