Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class

In Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket Books), acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.

Marx’s ecology: socialism and nature

Marx’s ecology: socialism and nature

Bristol Counterfire presents: Marx’s ecology: socialism and nature Karl Marx’s work covered a vast range of issues economic, philosophic and political. Most often people tend to focus on Marx’s critique of capitalism as an economic system. Rarely is...