You argue that the most popular versions of this analysis ofe the appropriation of user produced data by te companies are wrong. What is it about the digital economy that makes it so so inscrutable to so many? So basically, tolt, well, google its is n a lot of data, so what else can account for all its riches? And i just think that this is a very naive way to think about it.
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
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