Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2025, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (2): 11-17.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2025.02.002

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Platform Capitalism from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technology

WANG Na   

  1. (School of Marxism, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China)
  • Received:2023-12-29 Published:2025-04-02
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Abstract: Platform capitalism, which is based on emerging technologies such as network and digital technology, has not only profoundly changed the forms of labor organization and the ways to obtain surplus value in the capitalist society, but also made capital logic and its discipline fully embedded in the platform technologies. As a continuously generated technological aggregation, the platform embeds and refers to social relationships, shaping the labor process, consumption patterns, and political choices of the entire society. Digital technology capital and algorithmic technology power constitute a new dimension of social manipulation of platform capitalism, making human life activities and social relationships visible, calculable, and controllable. Under the conditions of platform capitalism, the multidimensional coupling of capital and technology effectively introduces all production factors, including labor, into the value creation and capital appreciation system. Jockey workers, unpaid workers, and the new proletariat are the survival patterns of contemporary workers in platform capitalism. Transcending platform capitalism means removing the logic of capital from the platform's technological intention structure and building a peoplecentered platform governance community.

Key words: platform capitalism; philosophy of technology; digital capital; algorithm power

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