Marx, Alienation and Techno-Capitalism

Lelio Demichelis offers a modern perspective on alienation, challenging Marx's view and updating critical theory and the Frankfurt School's views on an administered society. He uses characters to show how man is increasingly led to delegate sovereignty, freedom, responsibility, and awareness of being alive in a world where old and new forms of alienation come together.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 06 August 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Lelio Demichelis presents a modern perspective on the concept of alienation in his book, which has been translated into English for the first time. This concept, which is more profound and widespread today than initially described and criticized by Marx, has been largely forgotten and erased. Using the characters of Narcissus, Pygmalion, and Prometheus, the author reinterprets and updates Marx, Nietzsche, Anders, Foucault, and critical theory, particularly the views of the Frankfurt School on an administered society where everything is automated and engineered, as seen in algorithms, AI, machine learning, and social networking. Through these characters, Demichelis demonstrates that in a world where old and new forms of alienation converge, man is increasingly led to delegate sovereignty, freedom, responsibility, and awareness of being alive.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031073878
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022