{"product_id":"cyberpunk-the-new-totalitarianism","title":"Cyberpunk: The New Totalitarianism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsma Mhalla\u0026amp;rsquo;s wildly popular \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk \u003c\/i\u003eis a prescient, urgent deep dive into techno-political totalitarianism with more than 50,000 copies sold since its release in France.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench political scientist Mhalla interrogates how the marriage of Big Tech with anti-democratic shifts in government toward totalitarianism is transforming our brains into political battlefields. To Mhalla, control of civil society no longer operates primarily through censorship or repression, but through infrastructure\u0026amp;mdash;digital platforms, AI systems, cloud monopolies, and attention capture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk\u003c\/i\u003e, Mhalla argues that Big Tech does not merely influence politics, it constitutes a parallel sovereignty; that \u0026amp;ldquo;free speech\u0026amp;rdquo; rhetoric is increasingly used as a structural double bind; that AI systems are not only tools but cognitive infrastructures shaping the boundaries of the thinkable; and that Western democracies may be transitioning toward a post-liberal configuration without formal rupture. She sees contemporary U.S. politics not as a return to historical fascism, but as the emergence of a new, technologically mediated regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith parallels to the writings of Slavoj Zizek and Karen Hao\u0026amp;rsquo;s \u003ci\u003eEmpire of AI\u003c\/i\u003e, Cyberpunk is something new: an urgent, in-depth examination of the rapid transformation of the State, the mounting threats to our democracies, and the defining conflicts we\u0026amp;rsquo;re likely to be facing in the century ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49728948371683,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781644216033","price":124.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781644216033.jpg?v=1789326382","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/cyberpunk-the-new-totalitarianism","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}