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Tiziana Terranova (Trapani-Sicily, 1967) is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as
digital labor Digital labor or digital labour represents an emergent forms of labor characterized by the production of value through interaction with information and communication technologies such as digital platforms or artificial intelligence. The examples of ...
and
commons The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons ...
. Terranova has published the monograph ''Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age'', as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She lectures on the digital media cultures and politics in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'.


Theories

Perhaps the best known part of Terranova's work is her thesis, formulated in the early 2000s, that the free labor of users is the source of economic value in the digital economy. Free labor as a concept is rooted in Italian post-workerist and autonomist labor theories of value, such as
Paolo Virno Paolo Virno (; ; born 1952) is an Italian philosopher, Semiotics, semiologist and a figurehead for the Italian Marxism, Marxist movement. Implicated in belonging to illegal social movements during the 1960s and 1970s, Virno was arrested and jail ...
's re-reading of Marx's notion of the general intellect,
Antonio Negri Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Spinozistic- Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of ''Empire'' and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political ...
's theory of the social factory, and
Maurizio Lazzarato Maurizio Lazzarato (born 1955) is an Italian sociologist and philosopher, residing in Paris, France. In the 1970s, he was an activist in the workers' movement (Autonomia Operaia) in Italy. Lazzarato was a founding member of the editorial board of ...
's concept of immaterial labor. Free labor is free both in the sense that the laborers provide it voluntarily and in the sense that they are not remunerated by the beneficiaries of the labor (such as social media companies). As such, free labor is only the most extreme form of social labor receiving very little or no monetary compensation. For instance, Terranova describes the university as a 'diffuse factory': 'an open system opening onto the larger field of casualised and underpaid 'socialised labour power'.' Terranova has also argued that non-hierarchical, open access, free association, and non-monetary
P2P networks Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...
may provide a post-capitalist social and economic infrastructure.


Bibliography (selected)


Books

* '' Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age'' – Pluto Press, London 2004.


Essays and speeches

* ''Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy'' – Summer 2000. * ''Failure to comply. Bioart, security and the market'' – ''Transversal'', June 2007. * ''Netwar 2.0: the convergence of streets and networks'' – ''
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'', March 2012. * ''Attention, Economy and the Brain'' – ''
Culture Machine ''Culture Machine'' is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal of culture and theory that was established in 1999. It is published by Open Humanities Press. Further reading * Gary Hall, ''Culture in bits: the monstrous future of theory'', ...
'', Vol 13 (2012). * ''Red Stack Attack'' – ''Effimera'', February 2014. * ''Keynote: Capture All Work'' – 29 January 2015.


See also

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Antonio Negri Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Spinozistic- Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of ''Empire'' and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political ...
*
Paolo Virno Paolo Virno (; ; born 1952) is an Italian philosopher, Semiotics, semiologist and a figurehead for the Italian Marxism, Marxist movement. Implicated in belonging to illegal social movements during the 1960s and 1970s, Virno was arrested and jail ...
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Franco Berardi Franco "Bifo" Berardi (born 2 November 1949) is an Italian Marxist philosopher, theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. ...
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Post-Marxism Post-Marxism is a trend in political philosophy and social theory which deconstructs Karl Marx's writings and Marxism itself, bypassing orthodox Marxism. The term "post-Marxism" first appeared in Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theoretica ...


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Tiziana Terranova's CV
at the University of Naples ''“L’Orientale”'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Terranova, Tiziana Living people Italian Marxists Autonomism Anarcho-communists Date of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Accelerationism