Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis

Author:   Nick Dyer-Witheford ,  Alessandra Mularoni
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781804293638


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 February 2025
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Author:   Nick Dyer-Witheford ,  Alessandra Mularoni
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   Paperback original
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.197kg
ISBN:  

9781804293638


ISBN 10:   1804293636
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   11 February 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface: A Spectre Is Haunting the Planet 1. Cybernetic Circulation Complex 2. The Circulation of Commodities 3. The Circulation of Antagonisms 4. Biospheric Circulations 5. Circulations and Revolutions Coda: Lifeblood Acknowledgements Notes Index

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Techno-feudalism is obsolete. The future is digital degrowth. This book proves it. -- Sahei Kaito, author of <i>Slow Down</i> Demonstrates the productivity of Marx's core concepts when applied in a creative way to the evidence of the present. An indispensable guide to the powers we now confront and the path towards a just and sustainable future. -- McKenzie Wark, author of <i>Capital is Dead</i> In the crowded field of Big Tech criticism, Cybernetic Circulation Complex stands out, offering an indispensable guide to the conflicts, contradictions, and asymmetrical power that define the present moment. Dyer-Witheford and Mularoni revise and amplify Marx's concept of circulation, casting new light both on the evolution of the techno-capitalist complex and the emancipatory potential of digital degrowth in our collective struggle to stave off economic, ecological, and military chaos. -- Nicole Aschoff, author of <i>The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age</i> A profoundly useful and important contribution to the our understanding of the political economy of Big Tech, and the changing shape of contemporary capitalism. Offering new insights into the relationship between accumulation, circulation and digital communication technologies, this book gets to the heart of the relationship between digital innovation and intensifying exploitation on a global scale. -- Jeremy Gilbert, co-author of <i>Hegemony Now</i>


Techno-feudalism is obsolete. The future is digital degrowth. This book proves it. -- Sahei Kaito, author of <i>Slow Down</i>


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Nick Dyer-Witheford, a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, is the author of Cyber-Marx (Chicago: University of Illinois, 1999) and Cyber-Proletariat (London: Pluto Press, 2015). He has written on the video and computer game industry, the uses of the Internet by social movements and theories of technology. Alessandra Mularoni is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation focuses on the bioethical questions surrounding the prospect of eternal life. She has written for Inscriptions, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Political Economy of Communication. She co-manages the web-based project, ""Platforms, Populisms, Pandemics, and Riots"" (projectpppr.org).

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