[lbo-talk] Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ

[Eric Beck]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Voyou <voyou1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, and nothing in H&N's argument goes against this. The idea of a
> shift from Fordism to post-Fordism doesn't mean that the economy is
> shifting from widgets to symbols. It means that changes in symbolic
> forms of production have an affect on widget-based production.

Precisely. I amazed that people still make arguments like the one
Matthias makes here. Either they aren't reading well or they are
reading in bad faith, though it could also be that H&N are not as
precise in these arguments as is, say, Virno, who emphasizes that
dashboards are still being produced in the world, but that industrial
work is being restructured to be like communicative, symbolic work.
Has anyone else noticed that truck drivers have computers in their
cabs?