〈情報化〉を視軸に現代資本主義をみる(<特集>現代資本主義と情報革命)

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  • Information Capitalism, A Theoretical Perspective for Contemporary Capitalism(<SPECIAL ISSUE>Contemporary Capitalism and Information Revolution)
  • <情報化>を視軸に現代資本主義をみる
  • ジョウホウカ オ シジク ニ ゲンダイ シホン シュギ オ ミル

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This paper aims to establish clearly that Contemporary Capitalism can be construed as Information Capitalism. Capitalism grew with manufacturing as the key industry and came to its current form along with the production of inorganic matters/intangible goods. With elements being quantifiable, a defining characteristic of the production of inorganic materials/intangible goods is the concept of efficiency in the sense that the process from input to output are technically determinable. It can be argued that the advancement of the so called profit motive based capital, which in actuality, was also manufacturing that produced inorganic materials/intangible goods, was brought about by its aim of realizing maximum profits at the least expense. "Informatization" which started from the 1970's imparted technical determinability to fields that up to that time had no technical determinability such as the distribution division, for example, by enabling the prediction of the process from input to output and at the same time raised the level of industries existing up to that time. In this paper, the balance between "bringing up industry to high level production through knowledge work" and "reconstructing non-industrial fields industrially" is prescribed as "hyper-industrialization." Knowledge work means work done to execute high level professional activities that makes full use of technologies such as simulation technologies. What must really be paid attention to is that, for manufacturing industries, this knowledge work that supports the raising of industries to high levels basically comes from external "producer services division." Indeed, the so called" transformation to a service economy" which is characteristic of post-industrialization reveals one side of "high level industrialization." Information capitalism is, quite simply and in reality, the "hyper-industrialization" of contemporary capitalism.

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