The Neoliberal Politics of “Smart”: Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and the Enterprise Form

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dc.contributor.authorLevenda, Anthony M.
dc.contributor.authorMahmoudi, Dillon
dc.contributor.authorSussman, Gerald
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-19T13:36:19Z
dc.date.available2018-03-19T13:36:19Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates how digital technologies in the energy sector are enabling increased value extraction in the cycle of capital accumulation through surveillant proceesses of everyday energy consumption. We offer critical theory (Gramsci, Foucault) and critical political economy (Marx) as a guide for critical understanding of value creation in ICT through quotidian processes and practices of social reproduction. In this regard, the concept of the "prosumer" is extended beyond notions of voluntary participation in Web 2.0 to the political economy of energy use. Within this broad framework we investigate national and local level "smart grid" campaigns and projects. The "smartening" of the energy grid, we find, is both an ideological construct and a technological rationalization for facilitating capital accumulation through data collection, analysis, segmentation of consumers, and variable electricity pricing schemes to standardize social practices within and outside the home. We look at BC Hydro as one illustration of where such practices are being instituted.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2928en_US
dc.format.extent22 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2Z31NQ8W
dc.identifier.citationevenda, Anthony; Mahmoudi, Dillon; Sussman, Gerald. The Neoliberal Politics of “Smart”: Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and the Enterprise Form. Canadian Journal of Communication, [S.l.], v. 40, n. 4, nov. 2015.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7886
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Journal of Communicationen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Department Collection
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA)*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectsmart griden_US
dc.subjectsurveillanceen_US
dc.subjectmarxismen_US
dc.subjectFoucaulten_US
dc.subjectcritical theoryen_US
dc.subjectpolitical economyen_US
dc.subjectlabouren_US
dc.subjectprosumptionen_US
dc.titleThe Neoliberal Politics of “Smart”: Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and the Enterprise Formen_US
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