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Google archipelago, the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom, Michael Rectenwald

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Google archipelago, the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom, Michael Rectenwald

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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portraitsillustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Google archipelago

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bibliography

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Michael Rectenwald

Sub title

the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom

Summary

"Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom begins with familiar cultural politics as points of entry to the book's theme regarding the reach, penetration, and soon the ubiquity of the digital world. In a book about enormous sea changes brought about by digital technology, Google Archipelago begins and ends with the political, in particular with the objectives of the Big Digital conglomerates as global corporate monopoly capitalists or would-be-monopolies. Google Archipelago argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power. The technologies of Big Digital not only amplify, extend, and lend precision to the powers of the state, they may represent elements of a new corporate state power". -- Publishers website

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Robert Conan Ryan -- Introduction: Two archipelagos -- 1. Woke capitalism, corporate leftism, and the Google archipelago -- 2. Corporate socialism -- 3. The digitalistas and the digital gulag --4. Digital Maoism -- 5. Inside the (digital) gulag -- 6. Google Marxism -- 7. AI with Chinese characteristics? -- 8. Inside the (digital) gulag, Part II: the transistor -- Conclusion: New knowledge, or does "the real" exist?

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