Wprowadzenie do teorii kapitalizmu kognitywnego: kapitalizm kognitywny jako reżim akumulacji
Introduction to the theory of cognitive capitalism: cognitive capitalism as a regime of accumulation

Summary/Abstract: Article presents a historic, systematic and critical introduction to the theory of cognitive capitalism. It reconstructs the most important positions and debates within the field, from the first publications on the questions of immaterial labor and post-Fordism to the analyses of the financial crisis of 2001 to the recent publications of theoreticians of cognitive capitalism. It systematizes the debates on the hypothesis of cognitive capitalism, from the increasing role of the externalities and rent to the transformation of general intellect to the emergence of the new forms of value and the new mechanisms of its accumulation. It is this last issues, the new mechanisms of value accumulation, that constitutes the main interest of the article, which tries to present the functions of the financial capital in the formation of cognitive capitalism as a regime of accumulation and to analyze cognitive capitalism not only as an unstable regime of accumulation, but also to formulate the main contradictions of cognitive capitalism.

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