Post-productivism involves understanding (i) productivism, (ii) post-productivism, and (iii) post-productivism as a critical legal approach. Productivism is an ideology strongly associated and disseminated throughout the industrial periods of the nineteenth century – namely that of a search for a continuous increase in production capacities. According to the works of Ernest Solvay (1904), a leading industrial at the time, productivism assumes that the well-being of humans is ensured...
Data have become the raw material of twenty-first-century capital accumulation, and the platform is the business model best designed to extract, analyse, and monetise that raw material. This has direct yet perhaps underappreciated consequences for legal thought. Law is not merely being disrupted by digital technology, it is being actively incorporated into platform capitalism’s extractive infrastructure. Platforms as Legal Architecture Srnicek (2017) identifies several distinct platform types...