“The great continent” sheds mild on the planetary reactionary counter-revolution | EUROtoday

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The overview of magazines. In six years of existence, The nice continent has grow to be the European reference overview to consider a world in full swing. Drawn in 16,000 copies, the brand new annual quantity in paper format of this elegant on-line publication reveals, as soon as once more, its potential to make clear the revolutions of the second. And even the counter-revolutions in progress, like that of the“Reactionary acceleration” Who, in line with the Italian political scientist Lorenzo Castellani, characterizes the alchemy of Trumpism, able to associating the technological acceleration of digital know-how and the id conservatism of populists.

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The situations that made attainable this “Technological coup” Tech magnates stay, extends the previous Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake. These corporations have certainly trapped us, as illustrated by the labyrinth {that a} surfer should borrow wishing to keep away from cookies on a web site, and infrequently led, of weary struggle, to simply accept them and thus to transmit his information and his contact particulars to oriented multinationals. Like the X community, owned by the American Elon Musk, but additionally of Tiktok, “Controlled from Beijing by the Chinese Communist Party”she says. The servitude is voluntary: it’s the creators of content material and the customers themselves who protest towards his ban or his limitation, observes Marietje Schaake.

This is why the flat dish of the journal is dedicated to the manifestos of the techno-cesarists of Silicon Valley: ideology “Formist” techno-monarchist Curtis Yarvin, who considers that “The United States is just a business” ; The techno-optimism of Trumpist Marc Andreessen; THE “Capitalism for all” by Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, meant to forge a brand new social contract carried by the revolution of synthetic intelligence; The account of the libertarian route of Peter Thiel, one of many important buyers of Silicon Valley, who needs “Escape politics in all its forms”because of our on-line world, which creates non -state communities, area conquest, but additionally with the prospect of “Colonize the oceans”.

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