On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution: Black Power and Capitalism in the 1960s
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- Synopsis
- Uncovering the Black Power movement&’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution offers a comprehensive look at the Black Power movement&’s theoretical work and insights into the entanglement of capitalism, technology, and racism. Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs&’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics. Rather than reducing automation to an isolated technical phenomenon, theorists of the Black radical tradition identified its important historical antecedents in colonialism and plantation slavery, emphasizing how the emerging cyberculture joined with issues such as the reorganization of labor, ecological harm, and racial inequality. Examining the work of Martin Luther King Jr., Noah Purifoy, the Black Panthers, and others, On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution outlines the new forms of social reproduction conceived outside of the dominant structures of racial capitalism. Bartell synthesizes a wide range of source texts, including political speeches, literature, and activist archives, to show how the Black Power movement sought to create a postscarcity, more-than-capitalist economy. By shedding light on the movement&’s underexplored engagement with theories of technology, he provides a crucial key to understanding the historical dynamics responsible for our technocapitalist present. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781452973821
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781517913939
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/28/25
- Copyrighted By:
- the Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.