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Comments on the book

“In an era when technology is routinely treated as magical and liberatory, Luis Suarez-Villa

has written the long overdue and necessary antidote to such flabby analysis and ludicrous

self-congratulation. Technocapitalism is an outstanding book that should be read by all

students, scholars, and citizens who need to understand technology in the real world

of capitalism and corporate power rather than the fairy tale world of the upper middle

class individuals doing their own thing in the sacred free marketplace. Our species

faces extraordinarily serious issues in the coming generation, and an honest assessment

of the political and economic forces around us is the necessary place to begin.”

“Suarez-Villa has created a highly original work, carefully crafted and well-written.

This is a sweeping and grand theoretical analysis of the post post-industrial

iteration of capitalism that he terms ‘technocapitalism’. The synthesis of

literatures is very impressive but the work goes beyond synthesis to create

new arguments and paradigms for understanding contemporary capitalism

and its possible futures. The analysis is rooted in a strong humanism that

embraces technological change whilst regretting the corporatist forces that

shape its direction and manifestations. Technocapitalism represents

an important contribution to the scholarly literature.”

-Joel Bakan, author/filmmaker of The Corporation, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia

“Technocapitalsim raises important critical perspectives about what Suarez-Villa

finds to be the latest major stage of global capitalism. He gathers and

analyzes several aspects of the social organization of technological change to

provide a distinctive synthesis of literatures and arguments.”

-Rick Wolff, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor

at the New School University in New York

These comments were provided by Temple University Press and are published in the book’s jacket.