The current transformation of capitalism is characterised by a full-fledged comeback and proliferation of forms of rent parallel to a complete change in the relationship between wages, rent and profit. To demonstrate our hypothesis, this article is divided in two sections: in the first section...

Una introducción a la tesis del capitalismo cognitivo, colocando en el centro el rol clave del conocimiento en la transformación histórica de la relación capital-trabajo. Este trabajo se articulará en dos partes. En la primera nos proponemos presentar los fundamentos teóricos y la...

Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme...

Since the crisis of Fordism, capitalism has been characterised by the ever more central role ofknowledge and the rise of the cognitive dimensions of labour. This is not to say that the centralityof knowledge to capitalism is new per se. Rather, the question we must ask is to what extent we...

La conjoncture historique qui a vu naître le capitalisme cognitif trouve son origine dans une transformation radicale du rapport capital/travail. À la suite de cette transformation, l'ensemble des normes fordistes-industrielles qui ont structuré l'organisation sociale de la production, la...

The aim of this presentation is to introduce some aspects of the research programme on Cognitive Capitalism. The main point that characterises this research program resides in the fact that it assume as its main pillar the social crisis of Fordism. Such a crisis manifests itself as a break with...

We define first the knowledge capitalism concept (section 1) and, after, we give some ideas about its origin (section 2). We underline some specific characters from division of labour point of view (section 3) and the new wage relation (section 4).This article differs from previous presentations...

In the transition toward a cognitive capitalism, the transformations of the social organisation of production are strictly connected to those of income distribution. This evolution is deeply characterised by the re-emerging of the rent under different forms. The aim of this article is to provide...

This article outlines some elements for a marxist reading of the thesis of Cognitive Capitalism, a project that insists upon rereading the historical development of the knowledge economy from the point of view of the capital/labour relation. The first part of the article will be devoted to...

In the transition toward a cognitive capitalism, the transformations of the social organistion of production are strictly connected to those of income distribution. This evolution is deeply characterised by the re-emerging of the rent under different forms. The aim of this article is to provide...