Booklaunch: Cybernetic Circulation Complex (CCC and Biocommunism)

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis (Verso, 2024), Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the speeding up and automation of the circulation of commodities. Big Tech aims to subject everything from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production. The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the authors of the book for the Toronto launch of this exciting new book. We would like to acknowledge the vital support of the Jackman Humanities Institute and the Digital Labour Working Group at the University of Toronto. 0:00 Introduction and moderated by Rafael Grohmann 2:30 Nick Dyer-Witheford 25:20 Alessandra Mularoni 39:20 discussants Tori and Fergie 1:10:00 audience Q+A