Abstract
The expanding role of digital information technologies in our everyday economic (not to mention social, cognitive, emotional) lives feels awfully important. Two contributions to the fast-expanding literature on the increasing role of communications, information, knowledge, and networks in contemporary capitalism are Yann Moulier Boutang's Cognitive Capitalism and Christian Fuchs's Digital Labor and Karl Marx. Boutang and Fuchs agree that the new informational/communicative forms of production are real production, but they differ in their approach to theorizing the associated exchange value: Boutang rejects the labor theory of value while Fuchs embraces it. Reading these books pushes one to ask: under what relations are ideas—the ones we resist and the ones we hold most dear—produced and disseminated?
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