
Nick Srnicek on Platform Capitalism
Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella
Platform Capitalism - What's Neo Liberalism?
platform is a very abstract thing to try and define when you talk about the sharing economy. People can kind of understand this thing quite easily. But i think there was also an expectation at the time that those that kind of economic arrangement, for lack of a better term, was more scaleable than it actually was. And so when we talk about platform capitalism today, we're really talking about google and facebook and these massive, massive entities. I feel that platforms are as difficult to describe as neo liberalism. In so far as like soft ware can be ideological, google and facebook may be neo liberalism instantiated in code.
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