Srnicek platform capitalism6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Emancipatory initiatives should reinvent the concept of ‘autonomy’ to emphasize ways out of platform capitalism. Their findings were, however, on the basis of observations from 1960s factory struggles, not from today’s digital platform labour. During the 1960s and 1970s, workerists like Tronti and Negri argued that workers can spontaneously organize resistance against capital and thereby lead the way towards an autonomous future. This chapter confronts this situation of digital governmentality with the workerist notion of autonomy to assess what autonomy can mean in the age of platform capitalism. These apps extract data from their workers in order to subsequently control their conduct. ![]() Digital companies like Uber, Deliveroo, and TaskRabbit develop apps that workers download to acquire work. The rise of digital technology and the politics of lockdown have pushed Western economies towards what Nick Srnicek calls ‘platform capitalism’. ![]()
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