20.500.12556/RUL-185096 The digital sublime and the hidden abode deepening the dialogue between political economy of communication and labour process theory on digital labour This focused reflection responds to calls to renew Vincent Mosco’s political economy by extending his insights through the broader Labour Process Theory (LPT) tradition. While LPT in communication studies is often reduced to Braverman’s deskilling thesis, this essay argues that Friedman, Edwards, Burawoy and Davies provide additional essential concepts for analysing digital labour in the era of the cloud and generative AI. Read through Mosco’s concepts of spatialisation and the digital sublime, these contributions clarify how algorithmic workplaces and platform labour are organised through segmented regimes of control, the institutional production (and breakdown) of consent and gendered and racialised hierarchies that render key forms of maintenance and data work invisible. This article therefore offers an integrated lens for understanding how contemporary infrastructures reconfigure the boundaries of the ‘factory’ at planetary scale. Vincent Mosco labour process theory political economy of communication spatialisation digital sublime cloud computing algorithmic management consent digital labour gender true false true Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Članek v reviji 2026-07-22 14:21:49 2026-07-22 14:21:57 2026-07-23 04:10:12 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 485-497 no. 2 Vol. 20 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 316.77 1745-6428 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.20.2.0022 285730051 285710339 WOLG_20_2_Brlek.pdf WOLG_20_2_Brlek.pdf 1 F2E48FECDA6819B42800939E02A99589 51f2edbf8f118c5604f777936e5440fcbc89a9d80282ce10034229bfc6082257 de3f24f9-85c7-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=243284 http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.20.2.0022 0 e57a25af-85c7-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=243285 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0