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How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy - Hardcover

Durand, Cédric

 
9781804294383: How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1804294381 ISBN 13: 9781804294383
Verlag: Verso Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever.

In fact, in the hands of private corporations, the digitalisation of the world drives us towards a darker future. The return of monopolies, the dominance of a few platforms, the blurred distinction between the economic and the political all epitomise a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the digital economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination.

How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its contradictions. It disentangles the principles of an emerging systemwide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data, and ordinary people are increasingly at the mercy of tech giants. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d'économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital. How Finance Appropriates Our Future. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1804294381
ISBN 13 
9781804294383
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
230
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