CROWDWORKING AS INTENSIFIED REAL SUBSUMPTION: REREADING HUMAN- MACHINE RELATIONS

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2024-1-15

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Akdoğan, Berna

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This thesis provides a critical account of autonomist Marxism’s perspective on human-machine relations in contemporary capitalism. It conducts this criticism through the examination of specific digital labor called crowdwork that supplies the training data for machine learning. Examination of crowdworking relies on various qualitative and quantitative studies about crowdworkers and crowdworking. Through a detailed analysis of crowdworkers’ relationship with machine learning algorithms, this thesis suggests that crowdworking is the intensification of real subsumption. This thesis aims to show that, as opposed to the claims of autonomist Marxists, the novel forms of technology do not grant emancipatory conditions in the realm of immaterial labor.

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Crowdworking, Real Subsumption, Autonomist Marxism, Human-Machine Relations

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/107799

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis