This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is, Capital is Dead.

Is this something worse?

By Mackenzie Wark.

In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class.

Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labor, but capital as traditionally understood as well. And it's not just

tech companies like Amazon and Google. Even Walmart and Nike can now dominate the entire production

chain through the ownership of not much more than brands, patents, copyrights, and logistical

systems. While techno-utopian apologists still celebrate these

innovations as an improvement on capitalism, for workers and the planet, it's worse. The new

ruling class uses the powers of information to route around any obstacle that labor and social movements put up.

So how do we find a way out? Capital is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze

this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic

and contemporary theorists,

Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition

and the emerging class forces that control and contest it.

Capital is dead. Is this something worse?

By Mackenzie Wark. Out now from Verso Books.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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