12.04.2026 –, Seminarraum 7 Sprache: English
Big Tech now often wields direct or almost direct political power. Beyond their similarities to the old media moguls, the IT oligarchs also have a new kind of firm grip on the masses. Big Tech has ideologically paved the way for the reactionary forces and is now striving for a new political order. To develop effective anti-fascist alliances, we need a clearer understanding of these developments.
Looking at the USA, it is obvious that Big Tech is increasingly striving for direct political power, engaging in political activity itself, or quite openly placing political enforcers of its own interests in office. Similar to the media moguls and corporations before it, but with a different approach to the masses and different methods of operation, Big Tech initially played a key role in ideologically preparing the ground for the rise of the new reactionary forces. Now it is openly striving for a new political order. This article will first outline the contours of this new threat by examining various concepts, some very new, others drawing on old theories of fascism and other theories. The aim is not to provide a grand theoretical synthesis, but rather to highlight, through the discussion of these concepts, the possibilities of antifascist alliance politics against Big Tech.
Political scientist publishing since the 2000s about ideological phenomena of digitalisation (technolibertarianism, transhumanism, etc.), based on a long-standing interest in utopian thinking and anti-capitalist techno-futurism.