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Originally Posted by demonrail666
There's a strong argument made by Zizek that the internet, and all that it represents, might prove to be one thing that capitalism's logic ultimately won't be able to reconcile itself with. He argues that if capitalism is moving further away from traditional ideas of industry into more fluid, less tangible, knowledge based sources, then the internet - and the entire digital realm that it represents, while doing wonders in generating enormous quantities of information, will eventually frustrate capitalism (in Zizek's view terminally) through it's underlying (and I suspect ultimately irreversible) principle of free exchange. Whether the Left will be able to step in with a more viable system during capitalism's predicted crisis is, of course, up to the Left itself.
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this is what i sort of think. i remember in about 1996 reading interviews with chuck d and he was saying that the internet was going to bring about the collapse of the music industry and i thought he was totally off his rocker, but lo and behold...