In post-Fordism communicating is itself the work

Evidence

But in post-Fordism, when the assembly line becomes a ‘flux of information’, people work by communicating. As Norbert Wiener taught, communication and control entail one another. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 72

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-Fordist work substitutes communication for Fordist silence — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 72; Linguistic labor makes work and life inseparable under post-Fordism; Post-Fordist resistance must escape the motivation and demotivation binary — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 68 (+1 more)

Related

• Post-Fordist work substitutes communication for Fordist silence (similarity 0.86)
• Linguistic labor makes work and life inseparable under post-Fordism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Post-Fordist work substitutes communication for Fordist silence #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 72
• Linguistic labor makes work and life inseparable under post-Fordism #expands (0.85)
• Post-Fordist resistance must escape the motivation and demotivation binary #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 68
• Public selves require constant self-monitoring and self-editing labor #expands (0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 633