Post-Post-Fordism in the Era of Platforms
New Formations - ISSN 0950-2378
Volume 2014 Number 84-85
Post-Post-Fordism in the Era of Platforms
Robin Murray, Jeremy Gilbert, Andrew Goffey pages -
DOI: 10.398/NEWF:84/85.09.2015
Abstract
One of the UK’s leading radical economists discusses the history of post-Fordism as both a concept and a set of economic practices, with specific reference to his role as an innovative municipal policy-maker at the GLC in the 1980s and subsequently. The interview explores the ways in which post-Fordism has mutated since the 1980s, before moving on to discuss the attention economy and the death of the brand. It then looks at the future of co-operatives and ideas of co-operation in the age of social media, before investigating in more detail the politics of platforms and the democratic possibilities opened up by peer-to-peer technologies. Murray makes a convincing case that we have now entered the epoch of ‘post-post-Fordism’: the era of the platforms. The discussion is framed with reference to Deleuze’s ‘control societies’ hypothesis, which is the subject of the themed journal issue in which the interview appears.
To cite this article
Robin Murray, Jeremy Gilbert, Andrew Goffey (2014) Post-Post-Fordism in the Era of Platforms, New Formations, 2014(84-85 ), -. https://doi.org/10.398/NEWF:84/85.09.2015