Cybernetic Circulation Complex

Techno-feudalism is obsolete. The future is digital degrowth. This book proves it. – Kohei Saito, author of Slow DownDemonstrates the productivity of Marx’s core concepts when applied in a creative way to the evidence of the present. An indispensable guide to the powers we now confront and the path towards a just and sustainable future. – McKenzie Wark, author of Capital is DeadIn the crowded field of Big Tech criticism, Cybernetic Circulation Complex stands out, offering an indispensable guide to the conflicts, contradictions, and asymmetrical power that define the present moment. Dyer-Witheford and Mularoni revise and amplify Marx’s concept of circulation, casting new light both on the evolution of the techno-capitalist complex and the emancipatory potential of digital degrowth in our collective struggle to stave off economic, ecological, and military chaos. – Nicole Aschoff, author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded AgeA profoundly useful and important contribution to the our understanding of the political economy of Big Tech, and the changing shape of contemporary capitalism. Offering new insights into the relationship between accumulation, circulation and digital communication technologies, this book gets to the heart of the relationship between digital innovation and intensifying exploitation on a global scale. – Jeremy Gilbert, co-author of Hegemony Now

Nick Dyer-Witheford is a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He 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”.