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La Centralidad del Trabajo en el Capitalismo Digital: Precarización, Alienación y Control Algorítmico desde la Perspectiva de Ricardo Antunes
This article examines the contemporary transformations of labor within the framework of digital capitalism, focusing on precarization, alienation, and new forms of algorithmic control. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Ricardo Antunes, it presents a critical discussion that questions the continued relevance of labor as a central category for understanding dynamics of exploitation and accumulation in the digital age. Scholars such as Habermas, Zuboff, and Berardi enrich this debate by offering diverse perspectives that engage with Antunes’ thesis, contrasting the centrality of labor with new forms of technoscientific domination. Through a comprehensive theoretical analysis, the persistence and transformation of Antunes’ ideas are explored in a context of increasing digitalization, examining how labor organization and control technologies have been reconfigured. The study concludes that, far from representing a rupture, digital capitalism intensifies the inherent contradictions between capital and labor, consolidating labor exploitation through new modalities of precarization and control, thereby reinforcing the importance of labor as the core of capitalist dynamics.
