Beschreibung:
Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d'économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital. How Finance Appropriates Our Future and How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar and New Left Review.
The New Economy never arrived, instead we have regressed towards darker times. Have we already entered the age of techno-feudalism?
Preface to the English-Language EditionIntroduction 1. The Poverty of the Californian Ideology2. On Digital Domination3. The Rentier Class of the Intangible World4. The ‘Techno-Feudal’ HypothesisConclusion: Fortunes and Misfortunes of SocialisationAppendix IAppendix IIAcknowledgementsIndex