The network's blindspot: Exclusion, exploitation and marx's process-relational ontology

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 253-273

  Prey, Robert ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Castells; Contradiction; Exclusion; Exploitation; Hardt; Informational capitalism; Internal relations; Marx; Negri; Networks; Process relational ontology; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861759571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.408     Document Type: Article

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