Technofeudalism

Informationen zum Autor Yanis Varoufakis Klappentext No one noticed when capitalism died. We were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, the rise of populism, and cats on Instagram. A exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Written in the form of a letter to his late father, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech's effected a fundamental transformation in our lives. Zusammenfassung A GUARDIAN BEST FORTHCOMING BOOK OF 2023 The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world. 'Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original' NAOMI KLEIN on Talking To My Daughter --- No one noticed when capitalism was ... replaced. Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies went to big tech instead. Having privatised the internet, big tech has been able to replace capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit - with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labour like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism: the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and the greatest current threat to social democracy. Drawing on stories from Greek Myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men , world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power and ultimately what it will take overthrow it. --- 'A book for anybody who wants to understand this mess we are in - and since we are all in this mess, it is a book for everybody' Slavoj Zizek

Autorentext

Yanis Varoufakis

Klappentext

No one noticed when capitalism died. We were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, the rise of populism, and cats on Instagram. A exploitative new system has taken hold: techno-feudalism. Written in the form of a letter to his late father, Yanis Varoufakis explains how Big Tech's effected a fundamental transformation in our lives.

Zusammenfassung

Capitalism is dead. The #1 bestselling economist shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.

'What an amazing piece of work this is. Everyone should read it. 100 out of 100' IRVINE WELSH

In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun.

Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the pandemic have ended up supercharging big tech's hold over every aspect of the economy. Capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit - have been replaced with big tech's platforms and rents. Meanwhile, with every click and scroll, we labour like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism.

Drawing on stories from Greek Myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power and ultimately what it will take overthrow it.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power' Carole Cadwalladr, Observer

'With superb storytelling, Varoufakis shows how capitalism has eaten itself alive' Brett Scott, author of Cloudmoney