With Helen Hester, he is currently finishing a book on. The Challenges of Platform Capitalism: Understanding the Logic of a New Business Model. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams), and editor of The Speculative Turn (Re.press 2011, with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman). international political economy digital economy historical materialism anti-work. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy. Nick Srnicek is a Lecturer in Digital Economy at Kings College London. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. McKenzie Wark, author of Telethesia: Communication, Culture and Class 'Probe the slithering, creeping collusion between public and private, work and exhaustion, capitalism and death. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of 'platform capitalism'.This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. Srnicek gives good reasons for thinking the platform moment in capital accumulation might be less all-conquering than it looks. What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on.
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