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is Dead. Is this something worse? By Mackenzie Wark. In this radical and visionary new book Mackenzie Wark. In this radical and visionary new book, Mackenzie Wark argues that information

is 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, work 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 Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

It's conventional for people to compartmentalize when they interpret the world because conventional

accounts are allergic to systemic thinking and to context.

And so we spent the last few weeks jerked from the impeachment theater in Washington to

apocalyptic wildfires in Australia to finally

Trump's catastrophically provocative assassination of Kas Sulemani.

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