Rise of the Digital Technocracy

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Global Power and Local Resistance in a Post-Democratic World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This illuminating book explores the increasing super-concentration of wealth among select individuals and their networks alongside the growing trend towards technocratic surveillance in contemporary democracies. It suggests that tech conglomerates are occupied not only with making money at unprecedented levels, but also with using it to shape political, social and cultural processes according to their preferred ideologies.Contributing authors address the timely themes of Net Zero, smart cities and the transformative influence of AI to build an analysis of the current path to digital technocracy. They adopt an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the emergence of a concentrated global economic elite and examine key questions pertaining to manifestations of technologically enhanced population management strategies. Incorporating national case studies across China, Iran, the USA and elsewhere, Rise of the Digital Technocracy evaluates how the digitally engendered fear and suspicion embedded in the deployment of evolving technological tools are used as means of undermining and assuming increasing control of political systems.Innovative in its inter-connected analysis of global elites and technocracies, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of sociology, social policy, political theory and human-oriented data science. Professionals in bureaucracies, think-tanks and policy making will also benefit from its theoretical and practical insights.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035390427

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ContentsIntroduction: rise of the digital technocracy – global power and localresistance in a post-democratic world 1Garry Robson and Łukasz Wordliczek1 The rise of the digital technocracy: what’s in a name? 19Łukasz WordliczekPART I THE ROAD TO THE DIGITAL TECHNOCRACY2 Aldous Huxley’s blueprint for a brave new aristocracy: a newhistoricist analysis of the World Economic Forum and thetechnocratic great reset of the fourth industrial revolution 47John Klyczek3 Fear of a “scientific-technological elite”: from Eisenhower’s toBiden’s farewell addresses – a useful category or obfuscatingrhetorical device? 88Michael Schaefer4 From technocracy to technocratic politics: a new conceptualmodel for analysing the relation between technoscience andpolitics 110Francesco Antonelli5 Digitization and AI in the transformation of power relations 122Jobst Landgrebe6 The net zero energy transition: opening the door to digitaltechnocracy? 141Cristina E. ParauPART II NATIONAL CASE STUDIES7 Ahmadinejad’s populism: revolt against the “depoliticizationof technocracy” or the “return of politics” 167Alireza Samiee Esfahani8 Digital town squares: place as an analytical category forstudying contemporary protests 184Alesia Rudnik9 Cognitive warfare at the heart of China’s strategy toundermine the West 201Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Kimberly Orinx and Simon Peiffer10 Affect and the smart city: fear, suspicion and technology inthe making of urban futures 220Eveleen Kaur Sidana11 Building the ‘nerd reich’? The MAGA technocrats and thedigital hive 242Garry Robson

‘This book connects the dots to reveal a tectonic shift in the basic character of government in the West, and a deepening crisis of legitimacy. Descriptors such as “liberal” and “democratic” which have underpinned the West’s self-understanding for centuries begin to look obsolete, however much they continue to be used as terms of mystification. Consider this book like a meteorologist’s report on the gathering clouds of techno-totalitarianism.’