Film Analysis

People are being taken for granted. Personal information and attention are being obtained
for free and no one has any say of what is done to it. At times, one has to even have to pay for
the very same information. Movements are tracked and information recorded, yet nothing can be
done by the ‘victims.’ In the forces of production section, the question of whether technology is
good or bad is raised. It is now considered that there is more to technology being either good or
bad. In the past, technology has been seen basically from a ‘machine, perspective. Marx argues
that technology is more of an outcome from historical circumstances. He considers technology to
be the interconnection between not only the human and other human, but also human and non-
human. Technology is viewed as both labour and capital at the same time. It is dead labour
which is made by living labour, and it is capital in that it is shaped by the objective of extracting
value from labor (and from nature) as efficiently as possible. As competitions rises among
corporates, they opt for technology to increase output. This means that the living or human
labour is dismissed. This portrays how capital can take away power from the worker at the point
of production when technical changes are implemented.
Technology is, therefore, intimate to human such that it is capital in the capital form and
labor in the content form. Marx looked at the possibility of developing technology with tools of
philoeoph, whereas his vulgar approaches emerged that were more involved in practices
connected to scientific and technical knowledge upon which technology actually works. Rapid
development of the forces of production led to a combinatory of approaches to question of what
technology is and what Marxism itself could be or become. It is argued that Marxism could be,
quite compatible with scientific work and could provide procedures for thinking about the place
of science within capitalism if only it is reformulated as a method of organizing and re-

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organizing knowledge. The Social Relations of Science Movement of Britain based this
orientation, which maintained a positive outlook on the possibilities of technology, as science
applied to the rationalization of social production. It has been however unclear whether scientists
are part of the working class or externally affiliated to organized labor.
Science was considered as leisure for gentlemen before it came out as a vital aspect of
development and production. This implies that science was not alienated to any powers, either
political or economic. This life without alienation provided part of the leverage against what
science was becoming as its value for corporate and military power was increasingly appreciated.
However after the cold war, progressive scientists had no choice but to present themselves as
apolitical servants of ethical causes, this brought about the argument about good and bad
technology instead of forwarding the analysis of the forces of production as a historical agent.
Richard Stallman, a founder of free software brought a huge revolution in computer science, a
move that could at least be compared to Social Relations of Science movement. This move had
the strongest connection of daily life of the hacker and the struggle in the fight and against the
commodification of information science. The ruling class refers to these creative or intellects as
intellectual property and is an industry of its own which can be used to dominate manufacturing
through the control of information. Increasing capitalist organizations are highly depending on
not only just exploitation of specific labors but also socialization of knowledge, embedded into
the form of technology as general intellect. Those with much scientific training view technology
as an aspect or result of labor and a way of succeeding in expansion of social production which
might satisfy social needs while alienating exploitation. As one learns more about natural
science, then he or she discovers the damages that the commodity form has in the natural

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science. Vulgar-Marxists have raised questions of how gender and sexuality are caught up in
productive labor
Karen Barad, a psychiatric revived the approach to science studies by offering a theory of
theory agential realism. This considers more things to be actors in the production of knowledge
besides labor, scientific labor and is referred to as multi-species muddle by Haraway. Here, Keen
emphasis is made on role of the apparatus in science. Here, an apparatus is seen as a discrete part
of the forces of production and therefore referred to as the inhuman. Theories have risen in
attempts to produce concepts that could keep up with the mutations in information technology
wending their way throughout the whole consumption, circulation, and production cycle.