From the Battlefield of Nothingness to the Politics of Substance: Consciousness as Labor Power and the End of Capital【从无物之阵到有物之政：作为劳动力的意识与资本的终结】 (opens in new tab)

This paper aims to reconstruct Marx’s concept of labor power within a historical-materialist framework adapted to the digital age. Its core task is to distinguish between two forms of labor power that belong to different historical strata. The first is the traditional labor power defined by Marx in Capital – “the sum of physical and intellectual capacities” that is procedurable, standardisable, quantifiable, reproducible, and capable of being mass-produced through educational systems. The sec...