Big Tech: the rise of data and the death of politics

Abstract

Evgeny Morozov, a Belarusian researcher and writer, presents a highly suggestive work regarding the political critique of technology. On the one hand, he exposes in an empirical way, with an abundance of cases, how Google, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, among others, use their users' data as raw material for digital capitalism. On the other hand, his foray, although limited in more classical references (although clearly supported by Marx, Foucault and Deleuze), constitutes, at the end of the book, a fundamental theoretical and methodological contribution to studies on technology. Even though it is, first and foremost, a political intervention book, Morozov lays the foundations for thinking about a fruitful theory of technology.