Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 44-53.DOI: 10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2024.06.006

• Special Topic: New Forms of Labor • Previous Articles     Next Articles

The New Alienation of Labor and Its Sublation in the Digital Age and Its Sublation—Analysis Based on Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 

JI Zhigeng,HUANG Wei   

  1. (School of Marxism,Sichuan University,Chengdu 610207,China)
  • Online:2024-11-01 Published:2024-11-25

Abstract: In the digital age,everything is interconnected and playable,and the boundary between labor and leisure is becoming increasingly blurred."Playbour" is deeply embedded in social production and life processes,becoming a common form of leisure and entertainment for people,and also an important part of the chain of digital capital exploitation.Unlike traditional labor practices in the past,"playbour" is a new form of labor that relies on digital technology to additionally generate or actively create data products in the entertainment process of digital platforms.Based on the quadruple regularity of labor alienation in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844,this article focuses on "playbour",which is essentially a voluntary form of production-consumption labor for free under the leadership of capital logic.It presents new changes from tangible products to data products,from exploitation by others to self-exploitation,from machine control to spiritual enslavement,and from capital domination to data monopoly.Based on this,in order to actively sublate "playbour",it is necessary to transform production relations,achieve regurgitation feeding of technology,strengthen value guidance in breaking the invisible shackles of digital capital on people,enhance people's intelligent governance and good use of digital technology,and promote comprehensive self-recovery.

Key words: digital age, "playbour", labor alienation, leisure time, capital logic, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

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