Language and value: the philosophy of language in the post-Operaist critique of contemporary capitalism

Publication date: Available online 18 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Mikołaj RatajczakAbstractThis paper offers a discussion of the role played by the philosophy of language in the post-Operaist critique of contemporary capitalism, focussing specifically on the relation between language and questions of labour and value. It argues that the post-Operaist philosophy of language is a philosophy of immaterial labour which enables us to make new diagnoses concerning the contradictions and antagonisms of late, cognitive, financialized capitalism. The first part of the article broadly outlines post-Operaist thinking about language in the context of contemporary Italian philosophy of language. In this part, the argument is made for a shift from using the term 'philosophy of l...

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