Book Reviews "Cyber-Marx: Cyclesand Circuits of What potential does newer information technology hold for oppositional movements at the Struggle in High-7bchnology beginning of the twenty-first century? Can marxian theory in general help us to more fully Capitalism" understand a dynamic of social struggle translated into a world of communication technology? If by Nick Dyer-Witheford University of Illinois Press, 1999. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-252-06795-9 so, what particular vision within marxian theory has demonstrated itsdfable to comprehend not only the radical restructuring of capitalism, commonly referred to as a move towards postFordism, but the accompanying renewal of sociallycirculated struggle? The tide givesa good idea as to whether Dyer-Witheford believesmarxian theory offers explanatory relevanceand transformative potential in awodd both similar and yet dramatically different Reviewedby Enda Brophy from that which Marx himself described in the nineteenth centur)~ The means bywhich this Carleton University, condusion is arrived at is, however,both unconventional and thought-provoking. Drawing from Graduate Program in Communication a particular reading of the role of technology in Marx'swork, Dyer-Witheford traces the struggles eobrophy@chat.carleton.ca emerging at every point along the newly emerging circuit of capital accumulation. Having analyzedthe principal theoretical deaths Marxism has been the victim of, Dyer-Witheford goes on to counterpose
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Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism
Brophy, Enda
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