作为空间范畴的数字资本主义——基于资本主义发展史的考察

Digital Capitalism as a Spatial Category——An investigation Based on the Development History of Capitalism

资本主义是一种创造更大空间生产的制度,空间是资本的存续之根。通过对资本主义发展历史的空间性考察,分析其在不同时期空间组织形式的变化,可以看到资本在国家空间形态的生产场域的运作中推动了世界性生产空间的形成。随着资本主义进入数字时代,数字资本主义的核心是生产资料和生产单位的数字空间化,数字空间化的媒介是数字平台。如果任由作为空间力量的资本主义无限制地发展下去,由数字资本主导人类文明的发展,资本主义就会利用数字生产力地发展,在不断制造和占有空间中实现物质与数字世界的双重统治。数字资本并非以数据为中心,而是以数字空间的布局为中心的资本发展形态。数字时代是人类创造一种新的文明形态的历史时代,需要立足于对数字资本主义的空间性考察,寻求实现人的空间解放的历史性力量。

Capitalism is a system that creates greater space for production,and space is the root of capital’s survival.Through the spatial investigation of the development history of capitalism and the analysis of the changes of its organizational forms of space in different periods,we can see that capital promotes the formation of the world production space in the operation of the production field of the national spatial form.As capitalism enters the digital age,the core of digital capitalism is the digital spatialization of the means of production and production units,and the medium of digital spatialization is the digital platform.If capitalism as a spatial force is allowed to develop without restriction and the development of human civilization is dominated by digital capital,capitalism will take advantage of the development of digital productive forces to realize the dual domination of the material and digital world in the continuous production and occupation of space.Digital capital is not a form of capital development centered on data,but on the distribution of digital space.The digital age is a historical era in which human beings create a new form of civilization,which needs to be based on the spatial investigation of digital capitalism and seek the historical force to realize the liberation of human space.