Pub Date : 2020-04-21DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1135
C. Kostopoulos
This study examines the contribution of media frames to democratic debate. Focusing on Greece, the article investigates how the press frames the Greek memoranda (2010-2015) and the contribution of these frames to the construction of democratic debate. Relying on an in-depth qualitative framing analysis of the coverage of the three memoranda and combining insights from framing theory and political economy, the major frames that shaped debates on the issue and the boundaries of discourse that they set are identified. The findings illustrate that, while the application of frames might differ across outlets, a rather uniform debate around the memoranda is promoted through the press. These results raise doubts about the performance of the media in the coverage of the most significant political issue in Greece’s recent history, and reveal the silencing of alternative voices that could have challenged the dominant frames of the debate.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-06DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1165
E. Gogol
Through an exploration of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, major themes of Dunayevskaya’s contribution to Marxist thought and action are presented. Her view of Marx as a philosopher of revolution in permanence, her interpretation of Lenin as a Hegelian-Marxist thinker-activist revolutionary, her reading of Hegel’s Absolutes as New Beginning for our age, her insistence that human subjects of social transformation are not alone muscle but Mind, are revolutionary Reason as well as force, and her efforts to work out and practice a dialectic of organisation and philosophy through the Marxist-Humanist organisation she founded, News and Letters Committees, are briefly discussed using documentation from her archives, which have recently been made available on the Internet.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1121
Scott Timcke
Econometric data are used to produce authoritative facts about the world. Yet, as numbers enjoy a central place in modern reasoning (particularly in government as their presumed objectivity and neutrality assist impartial decision-making), it is important that they receive scrutiny. Using methodological techniques from Western Marxism, with special reference to the work of Lukács, Horkheimer and Adorno, and Marcuse to inform a critique of Acemoglu and Robinson, I argue that the historical emergence of econometrics as a mode of mediated knowledge is a reified practice within the broader technical administration of social life, a practice that is not a transparent representation of social phenomena. This is because when econometrics transforms the thing being measured into a statistical indicator it eclipses political disputes with technical disputes, sidestepping good faith democratic deliberation about what goods are worth pursuing. Effectively, one-dimensional thought cannot perceive the origins of items put into circulation and so ideology is produced – what seems value-free is value-laden.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1168
C. Fuchs
Im Jahr 2020 führte die Coronavirus-Krise zu einem Bruch in den Gesellschaften der Welt und deren Alltagsleben. Dieser Artikel ist ein Beitrag zur kritischen Theoretisierung der Veränderungen, die die Gesellschaften im Kontext der Coronavirus-Krise durchmachen. Er stellt die folgenden zwei Frage: Wie haben sich Alltagsleben und Alltagskommunikation in der Coronavirus-Krise verändert? Wie beeinflusst der Kapitalismus das Alltagsleben und die Alltagskommunikation in dieser Krise? Abschnitt 2 beschäftigt sich damit, wie sich der soziale Raum, das Alltagsleben und die Alltagskommunikation durch die Coronavirus-Krise verändert haben. Abschnitt 3 setzt sich mit der Kommunikation von Ideologie im Kontext des Coronavirus auseinander, indem die Kommunikation von Verschwörungstheorien und Falschnachrichten über das Coronavirus analysiert wird. Die Coronavirus-Krise ist eine Existenzkrise der Menschheit und der Gesellschaft. Sie konfrontiert die Menschen in radikaler Weise mit dem Tod und der Angst vor dem Tod. Diese kollektive Erfahrung kann einerseits zu neuen Formen der Solidarität und des Sozialismus führen. Wenn Ideologie und die extreme Rechte sich durchsetzt, so kann es andererseits aber zum Fortschreiten von Krieg und Faschismus kommen. Politisches Handeln und politische Ökonomie sind in einer derartigen tiefen Krise, die die Gesellschaft und das Alltagsleben erschüttert, entscheidende Faktoren.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1167
C. Fuchs
In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life and everyday communication changed in the coronavirus crisis? How does capitalism shape everyday life and everyday communication during this crisis? Section 2 focuses on how social space, everyday life, and everyday communication have changed in the coronavirus crisis. Section 3 focuses on the communication of ideology in the context of coronavirus by analysing the communication of coronavirus conspiracy stories and false coronavirus news. The coronavirus crisis is an existential crisis of humanity and society. It radically confronts humans with death and the fear of death. This collective experience can on the one hand result in new forms of solidarity and socialism or can on the other hand, if ideology and the far-right prevails, advance war and fascism. Political action and political economy are decisive factors in such a profound crisis that shatters society and everyday life.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-24DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1163
Ben Gook, S. Žižek
An interview with Slavoj Žižek, in which he discusses crucial topics central to both his thought (psychoanalysis, philosophy, Hegel, film) as well as broader conversations over the past decade (capitalism, China, universal basic income, ecology, authoritarianism, protest movements).
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Pub Date : 2020-03-23DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1160
S. Splichal
This afterword to “A Marxist Approach to Communication Freedom” reveals some features of the development of communication theories and empirical research in socialist Slovenia and Yugoslavia. The field started to develop in 1960s in the framework of other academic disciplines, mainly political sciences and partly sociology, but soon became the target of ideological criticism for “the lack of Marxist foundations” in the social sciences in general, and journalism education and communication research in particular, which was part of a more general conflict between party-state bureaucracy and “liberal intellectuals.” By the 1980s, communication and journalism education and research programmes became a regular component of universities in all the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The development of the new discipline was largely marked by “productive inclusivism” or eclecticism, a kind of “cohabitation” of different communication schools and theoretical paradigms that contributed to its definition, development and institutionalisation at universities.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-23DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1159
S. Splichal
This article is an abridged translation of the section “Produkcija in komuniciranje: nujnost in svoboda” (Production and communication: necessity and freedom) of Slavko Splichal’s book Množično komuniciranje med svobodo in odtujitvijo (Mass Communication between Freedom and Alienation, pp. 123-138), published in Slovene in 1981 after it was defended as a doctoral thesis in 1979. The article, which was among the earliest on its topic, starts with the discussion of Marx’s approach to the freedom of the press in his “Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly”, from the perspective of his later economic critique of capitalism, to show the inherent connection between human communication and work. This indissoluble connection is the starting point of the critique of “critical theories” aiming at “liberating” communication from work and production, exemplified by Habermas’s dualistic conception of work and communication. The concluding part discusses the relationship between communication freedom, rationality, and alienation, arguing that the freedom of communication cannot be founded on its independence from work (material production), but only on the emancipation or disalienation of human labour, and emphasising the danger that, if this does not happen, one-party socialist system with state and social ownership of the means of production and state-controlled economy will deteriorate into a multiparty capitalist system with private ownership and monopolistic economy. The article is followed by an afterword in which the author writes in a retrospect, after 40 years, about political and intellectual circumstances of the self-management socialism, which shaped the development of communication and media studies in “late socialism” – i.e. in the period preceding and heralding the collapse of socialism.
本文是Slavko Splichal的著作Množično komuniciranje med svobodo in odtujitvijo(自由与异化之间的大众传播，第123-138页)1981年在斯洛文尼亚出版的“Produkcija in komuniciranje: nujnost in svoboda”(生产与传播:必要性与自由)部分的删节翻译，1979年该著作被作为博士论文发表。这篇文章是该主题最早的文章之一，从马克思后来对资本主义的经济批判的角度，从马克思在《第六届莱茵河省议会论文集》中对新闻自由的态度开始讨论，以显示人类交流与工作之间的内在联系。这种不可分割的联系是旨在将交流从工作和生产中“解放”出来的“批判理论”批判的出发点，哈贝马斯关于工作和交流的二元论就是例证。结语部分讨论了传播自由、理性和异化之间的关系，认为传播自由不能建立在其独立于工作(物质生产)的基础上，而只能建立在人类劳动的解放或非异化的基础上，并强调了如果不这样做的危险，生产资料国家和社会所有制、国家控制经济的一党制社会主义制度，将蜕化为私有制和垄断经济的多党制资本主义制度。在文章的后记中，作者回顾了40年后自我管理社会主义的政治和思想环境，这些环境塑造了“晚期社会主义”(即在社会主义崩溃之前和预示着崩溃的时期)传播和媒介研究的发展。
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Pub Date : 2020-03-19DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1147
Aitor Jiménez
This article explores and theorises what is here termed the Silicon Doctrine (SD), that is the legal ideology underpinning the libertarian version of the digital economy promoted (among others) by Facebook, Uber, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The first part of the text explores the Silicon Doctrine’s Frankensteinian ideological roots. The second part of the text scrutinises three dimensions of the Silicon Doctrine: 1) data extraction; 2) domination of the informational infrastructure; and 3) labour exploitation. This article examines the social contract proposed by Silicon Valley, evaluating its two-sided role as a disruptive breakout from the twentieth century social model, and as a continuation of the neoliberal shock doctrine.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1105
E. Brophy, Rodrigo Finkelstein
This article explores the convergence of debt, deportation, and digital labour in Mexico by describing the making of a labour force working on the frontlines of transnational debt collection, performing what we call digital debt labour. Drawing on dozens of interviews in Tijuana and Mexico City conducted between 2016 and 2019, we relate the growth of a debt collection labour force in Mexico. To theorise the intersection between debt, migration, and digital labour, this article explores three overlapping, converging, and expanding forms of migration: debt migration, or the circulation of consumer credit through markets for, or processes of, debt collection; virtual migration or the outsourcing of call centre work to offshore locations and the return migration of call centre workers in the labour process; and forced migration, or the deportation of undocumented migrants. Our core argument is that this case study demonstrates the manner in which a highly financialised and digital variant of capitalism is evolving to develop a multi-faceted and opportunistic relationship with the growing trends of migration and deportation.
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