@techreport{ce4220fdccf84d42aea681863aa9d434,
title = "Beyond the Fragment: the Postoperaist Reception of Marx's Fragment on Machines",
abstract = "This paper critiques the purposes to which Marx{\textquoteright}s Fragment on Machines is put in postoperaist thought. I suggest postoperaist readings wield influence on contemporary left thinking, via postcapitalism, accelerationism and {\textquoteleft}Fully Automated Luxury Communism{\textquoteright}. Changes in labour lead proponents to posit a crisis of measurability and an incipient communism. I use the New Reading of Marx and Open Marxism to dispute this. Based on an analysis of value as a social form undergirded in antagonistic social relations, I argue the Fragment{\textquoteright}s prognosis runs contrary to Marx{\textquoteright}s critique of political economy when the latter is taken as a critical theory of society. This theoretical claim bears implications for contemporary left political praxis.",
keywords = "Marx, Marxism, Postoperaismo, post capitalism, Capitalism, Labour, Value, Sociology of Work, Critical Theory, Management, Political Economy, Political sociology, Philosophy",
author = "Frederick Pitts",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "9",
language = "English",
series = "School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies Working Paper Series",
publisher = "University of Bristol",
number = "2",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "University of Bristol",
}