We have now another generation of companies without offices, office workers and physical products.
‘The platform has gone from an operating and gaming system to a global economic factor, from a metaphor
to the mechanism of cultural production.’
LA Review: “Delete Your Account: on the Theory of Platform Capitalism“
There is a nice companion piece in Printing, Nationalism and the History of the Book: https://topia.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/topia/article/viewFile/464/12288
I find interesting the sentence “the modern nation states that arose with print cultures are, as Benedict Anderson suggests, “imagined communities” whose existence rests upon a minority’s ability to use “languages-of-power” (Anderson 1983: 45)” When we talk about platforms, I’m not sure the word “imagined communities” applies though.