From Capital to Documediality

Abstract

In this paper, I try to highlight what I call the “documedia revolution” i.e. the outcome of the changes we are witnessing in our times. Documediality indicates the allegiance between the constitutive power of documents and the mobilizing power of media (and new media, in particular). I propose to outline this great transformation, showing how we moved from capital to documediality, passing through mediality. These are three fundamental phases we passed through as human kind, with different features and manifestations. I aim at showing that our times commodities are documents and that labour we do is a kind of mobilization. This kind of changes ask for a different point of view able to focus on recognition (instead of sustenance), self-affirmation (instead of alienation), and atomization (instead of classification).