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050	1	4	_aHB 501 _bS939t 2012
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100	1		_aSuarez-Villa, Luis, _920640 _d1947-
245	1	0	_aTechnocapitalism : _ba critical perspective on technological innovation and corporatism / _cLuis Suarez-Villa.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bTemple University Press, _c2012.
300			_avi, 220 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt
337			_acomputer _bc
338			_aonline resource _bcr
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction Experimentalism Society as Laboratory Accumulation and Power Experimentalism as System Conclusion Creativity as a Commodity Creativity versus Commodification Utility and Value Reproduction and Commodification Commodification as Process Conclusion Networks as Mediators Network Extent Hierarchies and Control Power and Inequity Change over Change Conclusion Decomposing the Corporation Networks versus the Corporation Decomposition and Power Pathology of Decomposition Conclusion Experimentalist Organizations Systematized Research Regimes Collaboration and Power Pathological Pursuits Conclusion Challenges Downfall of Public Democracy Hegemony of Corporatism Empowering Creativity Rediscovering the Social Notes Index
520			_aA new version of capitalism, grounded in technology and science, is spawning new forms of corporate power and organization that will have major implications for the twenty-first century. Technological creativity is thereby turned into a commodity in new corporate regimes that are primarily oriented toward research and intellectual appropriation. This phenomenon is likely to have major social, economic, and political consequences, as the new corporatism becomes ever more intrusive and rapacious through its control over technology and innovation. In his provocative book Technocapitalism, Luis Suarez-Villa addresses this phenomenon from the perspective of radical political economy and social criticism. Grounded in the premise that relations of power influence how human creativity and technology are exploited by the new corporatism, the author argues that new forms of democratic participation and resistance are needed, if the social pathologies created by this new version of capitalism are to be checked. Considering the new sectors affected by technocapitalism, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, and genomics, Suarez-Villa deciphers the common threads of power and organization that drive their corporatization. These new sectors, and the corporate apparatus set up to extract profit and power through them, are imposing standards, creating business models, molding social governance, and influencing social relations at all levels. The new reality they create is likely to affect most every aspect of human existence, including work, health, life, and nature itself.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aCapitalismo _91787
650		4	_aEconomía _xAspectos políticos _910718
650		0	_aCorporations _xSocial aspects.
650		4	_aTecnología _xAspectos sociales _94812
650		0	_aTechnology _xSocial aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
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906			_aBOOK
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