Abstract
In this paper, I try to highlight what I call the “documedia revolution” i.e. the outcome of the changes we are witnessing in our times. Documediality indicates the allegiance between the constitutive power of documents and the mobilizing power of media (and new media, in particular). I propose to outline this great transformation, showing how we moved from capital to documediality, passing through mediality. These are three fundamental phases we passed through as human kind, with different features and manifestations. I aim at showing that our times commodities are documents and that labour we do is a kind of mobilization. This kind of changes ask for a different point of view able to focus on recognition (instead of sustenance), self-affirmation (instead of alienation), and atomization (instead of classification).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
De Soto, H. (2000). The mystery of capital. New York: Basic Books.
Debord, G. (1994). The society of spectacle. New York: Zone Books.
Domenicucci, J., & Doueihi, M. (Eds.). (2017). La confiance à l’ère numérique. Paris: Éditions Berger-Levrault et Éditions Rue d’Ulm.
Ferraris, M. (2012). Documentality. New York: Fordham University Press.
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Searle, J. R. (1995). The construction of social reality. New York: The Free Press.
Sennett, R. (1998). The corrosion of character, the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. New York/London: Norton.
Wieviorka, M. (2017). Face à la «postvérité » et au «complotisme». Socio, 08, 81–96.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ferraris, M. (2020). From Capital to Documediality. In: Andina, T., Bojanić, P. (eds) Institutions in Action. Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32618-0_8
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-32617-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-32618-0
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyPhilosophy and Religion (R0)