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

[shag carpet bomb]

At 02:20 PM 10/9/2009, Eric Beck wrote:
>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?

I haven't read any of their work, but could you or someone explain why 
computers in their cabs matter -- other than to make the walmart supply 
chain superefficient?

if that's too much of a 101 question, ignore. I'll wait until I after I 
move to read the book. :)

shag