The dispute between London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Palantir over a £50m Metropolitan Police contract illuminates the deep contradictions within the capitalist state's relationship to surveillance technology. While Khan frames his rejection as a matter of "values," the material reality is more...
This article reveals a profound transformation in the labor market where technological change—specifically AI—is being deployed to eliminate entry-level positions, forcing young workers into precarious self-employment that capital then celebrates as entrepreneurial freedom. The fundamental class...
The UK Biobank data breach reveals far more than a security failure—it exposes the fundamental contradictions in how biomedical research operates under contemporary capitalism. Five hundred thousand volunteers donated their most intimate biological information—genome sequences, brain scans, blood...
This article reveals how AI journaling apps like Mindsera represent a new frontier in the commodification of human emotional life. What appears as a benevolent technological tool—helping users process their thoughts and feelings—operates fundamentally as a mechanism for extracting subscription...
The withdrawal of a YouGov survey on church attendance reveals far more than methodological problems in polling—it exposes fundamental contradictions in how knowledge is produced under digital capitalism. The survey industry's reliance on opt-in, paid respondents created an economic incentive...
The US court verdict holding Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive technology represents a significant moment in the evolving relationship between tech capital, the state, and civil society. Yet the dominant framing—shared by governments, campaigners, and media alike—treats platform...
This landmark trial against Meta and Google illuminates the material basis of platform capitalism: the systematic extraction of value from human attention and behavioral data. The design features under scrutiny—infinite scroll, autoplay, notification systems—are not bugs but features of an...
This article documents a textbook case of the capitalist class wielding its economic power to shape political outcomes directly in its favor. California's proposed billionaire tax—a modest 5% one-time levy on assets exceeding $1 billion to fund education, healthcare, and food assistance—has...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority's agreement with Apple and Google reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist state regulation: the state's structural dependence on capital accumulation limits its capacity to meaningfully constrain that same capital. Despite formally...