Read: [[Techno-feudalism or Platform Capitalism? Conceptualising the Digital Society]]
- Good look at various claims that current Big Tech platforms have ‘killed’ capitalism and turned it into something worse ([[technofeudalism]], [[vectoralism]], etc).
- [[Jeremy Gilbert]]‘s opinion is no, it’s still capitalism, rather a new ‘[[regime of accumulation]]‘ - i.e. [[platform capitalism]].
- Fine. But it all strikes me as a bit internal nitpicking. Does it actually help us do anything about it?
- I think the argument would be, yes, you kind of need to understand precisely what it is in order to counter it.
- Maybe.