¿Qué es el capitalismo cognitivo?

The chapter argues that cognitive capitalism is the historical phase in which knowledge and immaterial labor move to the center of accumulation, extending biopolitical management toward a bioeconomy in which social and ecological life becomes a direct input for valorization; its aim is to conceptually define this regime, trace its sources, and show its effects on the university and the paradigms of knowledge. In theoretical terms, it draws on the Italo-French tradition (Boutang, Rullani, Corsani; Fumagalli) and on Marxian-Foucauldian critique, emphasizing the enclosure of knowledge through patents and copyright and the hegemony of labor that produces information, communication, and affect. The scope of the chapter includes: (i) outlining operational definitions of the concept; (ii) historicizing its origin and its "qualitative leap" beyond Fordism/Taylorism; (iii) describing the market of theories that debates it; and (iv) mapping its technological transition toward the so-called "quantum era" (6G, quantum computing, smart environments), in which automation and the horizontal/vertical integration of innovations reconfigure ecosystems, data, and the governance of knowledge.