Cybernetic Circulation Complex - Big Tech and Planetary Crisis

An anti-capitalist guide to breaking the power of Big Tech

List 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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Nick Dyer-Witheford, Nick Mularoni Dyer-Witheford, Dyer-Witheford Nick, Alessandra Mularoni
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804293638
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-363-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Climate Change, Economics, Information technology industries, E-commerce: business aspects, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Digital or internet economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance