Thomas, Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2024. Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1): 140-433. Full issue: DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1501 ABSTRACT: tripleC’s special issue on “Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis” presents 14 papers and an introduction that contribute to establishing foundations of critical theories and the philosophy of praxis in the light of digital capitalism. In Marxist theory, a theoretical and analytical strand has emerged that is focused on the roles that knowledge, communication, media, digital media, and digital communication play in and beyond capitalism. This special issue is a contribution to this type of Marxian analysis and theory construction. TABLE OF CONTENTS Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue Christian Fuchs, Sevda Can Arslan and Thomas Allmer (140-147) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1498 1. THEORISING DIGITAL CAPITALISM Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective Christian Fuchs (148-196) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454 The Neofeudalising Tendency of Communicative Capitalism Jodi Dean (197-207) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1460 Digitalisation Today as the Capitalist Appropriation of People’s Mental Labour Friedrich Krotz (208-231) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1477 Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure Maïa Pal and Neal Harris (232-247) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1431 2. DIGITAL LABOUR AND CLASS Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology Helene Thaa, Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel, Friedericke Hardering and Oliver Nachtwey (248-264) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1462 Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism Jasmin Schreyer (265-291) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1463 Involution, No Revolution: Technocapitalism and Intern Labour Anthony Fung, Wei He and Feier Chen (292-306) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1455 Tracing Class and Capital in Critical AI Research Petter Ericson, Roel Dobbe and Simon Lindgren (307-328) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1464 Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word Max Haiven, Graeme Webb, Sarah Olutola and Xenia Benivolski (329-347) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1476 3. DOMINATION IN DIGITAL CAPITALISM Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies Sébastien Shulz, Mathieu O’Neil, Sébastien Broca and Angela Daly (348-365) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1456 Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and Algorithmic Opacity Stefania Animento (366-380) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1459 Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in Nigeria Paul A. Obi (381-395) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1451 4. DEMOCRACY, PUBLIC SPHERE AND DIGITAL CAPITALISM Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its Consequences for a Public Service Internet Charli Muller (396-412) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1461 On a Potential Paradox of a Public Service Internet Elisabeth Korn and Jens Schröter (413-433) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1452