02537cam a2200373 i 4500 991107405145306196 20250703144746.0 240422t20242024enka g b 001 0 eng d 2024016823 9781804294383 (OCoLC)1433994333 (OCoLC)on1433994333 DLC eng rda DLC BDX OCLCO GO6 OCLCO YDX CLE OCLCO CaOTSTM eng fre pcc HC79.I55 D87413 2024 Durand, Cédric author 25671 Technoféodalisme. English How silicon valley unleashed techno-feudalism : the making of the digital economy / Cédric Durand ; translated by David Broder. English-language edition. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2024. ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The Poverty of the Californian Ideology — 2. On Digital Domination — 3. The Rentier Class of the Intangible World — 4. The ‘Techno-Feudal’ Hypothesis — Conclusion : Fortunes and Misfortunes of Socialisation. 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. In English, translated from the French. Information technology Economic aspects 12278 Knowledge economy 25672 Electronic commerce 1263 Capitalism History 21st century 25673 Broder, David translator 25674 lcc 0 0 ddc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-07-03 0 HC79.I55 DUR B07584 2025-07-03 1 2025-07-03 1 4825 4825