Iconomist Manifesto (for a philological critique of political economy)

Abstract

The resumption of the logical-historical-ethical core of Marx’s greatest work today represents an opportunity for rethinking without falling into commiseration for the end (self-inflicted?) of the “pink tide” but rescuing and valuing the plasticity of the new online forms of value creation, production and distribution with a new worldview and, therefore, a renewed perspective on the digital relationships between Merchandise, Money and Capital. The “iconomic” dimension (halfway between material and immaterial) transforms class struggle into an ethno-grammatical dispute between “categories”, the proposal is to pervert/convert/reverse capitalist mechanisms decoded in collective digital intervention programs so as to question the traditional logic of “elementary forms” of value. This derivation from the reading of Marx will allow, in an era of digitalization of the means of production and social relations, to tropicalize the world through a vision envisaged by the ethics of diversity, post-humanity and sustainability. Towards a new stage of digital emancipation.