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Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)

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They argue that platform capitalism poses major challenges for progressive politics, but may also offer opportunities for collective organisation. They suggest a viral campaign or mass global boycott, although they don’t see this happening any time soon. While many of these topics are of dear interest to me, teh book failed- as so many do - in developing clear-cut advices or strategies. A summative and unique assessment of where capitalism is today, and how the left reconstructs a political and social movement to challenge the power of Wall Street and Big Tech.

Gilbert and Williams offer practical and hopeful strategies for changing the "directions of travel" of the contemporary conjuncture - especially in the U. Part three looks towards the future and the potential ‘war of position’ that could be waged in the name of a reinvented neo-socialism based on a Green New Deal.While Gilbert and Williams discuss the creation of new coalitions and alliances in response to the slow death of neoliberalism, there are some surprising omissions. Through upgrading the concept of hegemony—understanding the importance of passive consent; the complexity of political interests; and the structural force of technology—Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams offer us an updated theory of power for the twenty-first century. Gilbert and Williams] have done a brilliant job stripping away much of the complexity that makes post and neo-Marxist language so difficult to engage with for ordinary mortals . And while it is reasonable to argue that Occupy was not effective because of its lack of demands, it did, as Kate Crehan and others have argued, make a dent in the triumphalist hegemonic narratives that developed after 1989 in ‘the long 1990s’ (119-120). To recap: its complicated, you have to know your enemy well and every situation ought to be analysed carefully.

This is a book that crosses the divide between political economy and cultural studies, but it is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of the apparent chaos of contemporary life and the possibilities for a better future.As Gilbert and Williams argue, however, Gramsci’s ideas can be understood as more nuanced than being about pure domination and lend themselves well to a detailed analysis of power relations, especially at times of instability and crisis. But what makes Hegemony Now uniquely impressive is how seamlessly their politics emerges from their sophisticated analysis of the conditions and actualities of the present. At each stage of their argumentation, they seek to expand and build complexity into Gramsci’s key terms. K. But what makes Hegemony Now uniquely impressive is how seamlessly their politics emerges from their sophisticated analysis of the conditions and actualities of the present. As they chart the collapse in authority of neoliberalism on the levels of media narrative, discourse and popular consent, there is no mention of the Occupy movement at all.

A really useful work using the concept of hegemony as theorised by Gramsci and others to analyse the current state of society and politics in (primarily) the UK and US and set out a future strategy for the left, broadly conceived.Their approach is to develop Gramsci’s concepts to include more complexity, through additions from other critical thinkers such as Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. Gramsci argues that while this interval exists, morbid symptoms will persist as ‘the old is dying and the new cannot be born’ (Gramsci, 1971: 276). He is the author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism , Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics and Twenty-First Century Socialism . Through upgrading the concept of hegemony-understanding the importance of passive consent; the complexity of political interests; and the structural force of technology-Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams offer us an updated theory of power for the twenty-first century.

This is the final book I read in my reading on the theme of hegemony set out here https://marxadventure. However, they recognise that this will require major international, intra-governmental coordination and high levels of participation by platform users. We cannot change anything until we have a better understanding of how power works, who holds it, and why that matters. Rather, they argue that it is possible for large groups of people to find themselves in disagreement with hegemonic common sense, while simultaneously being forced to defer to it and comply with its norms, behaving to all intents and purposes as if they believed in it.Also, in many cases corporations that offer renewable energy are the same corporations that profit from fossil fuels (think for example of Shell and Vattenfall). In particular, they can help deconstruct shifts in the status quo and think through periods where existing power structures are unstable or falling apart. Nevertheless, they also argue that while platform capitalism poses major challenges for progressive politics, it may offer more opportunities than post-Fordism did for collective organisation. Another is debt, which works to reduce the horizon of possibilities that individual subjects can imagine as realisable. This is his description of an ‘interregnum’, the gap between powers, or crisis of authority, that occurs when belief in the status quo has been shaken and doesn’t quite hold in the way it did.

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