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Cory Doctorow proposes breaking up big tech companies to limit digital surveillance

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In 2020, researcher Shoshana Zuboff popularized the concept of “surveillance capitalism” with the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. A few months later, writer and activist Cory Doctorow responded with “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”, an essay published in the digital magazine OneZero. Doctorow argues that major technology platforms maintain their power through monopolistic control of the commercial internet. According […]

Marta Peirano Analyzes Technological Surveillance in “The Enemy Knows the System”

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The essay “The Enemy Knows the System. A Resistance Manual for a Surveilled Generation” was published in 2019. Its author, journalist and writer Marta Peirano, constructs in this book a critical analysis of the control and surveillance systems that define the digital age. The text is situated in a historical context marked by Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations about the NSA’s […]

Yanis Varoufakis’ Thesis: Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism.

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What has happened to capitalism? Beneath the surface of financial crises and the rise of digital platforms, the Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis identifies a structural shift. In “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” (2024), he argues that the market-based system has lost its centrality and has been replaced by technofeudalism. The book emerges in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse. Central […]

Simona Levi: “Democratic Digitalization” and the Fight for Digital Sovereignty

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Digital transformation is advancing at an unstoppable pace, yet public debate about it often remains dominated by fear or uncritical opportunism. This raises a central question: is digitalization serving citizens, or is it being built on foundations that threaten fundamental rights? It is in this context that the new essay by activist and technopolitical strategist Simona Levi emerges. Simona Levi, […]

Capital Is Dead: from Capitalism to Vectoralism

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Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (2019; O Capital Morreu), by McKenzie Wark, presents a provocative hypothesis: industrial capitalism is no longer the dominant system, but has been replaced by another mode of production based on information control. Published by Verso, the essay introduces the concept of “vectoralism” to describe this new economic order. The object of the work […]