MCKENZIE WARK


The dominant ruling class of our time no longer maintains its rule through the ownership of the means of production as capitalists do. Nor through the ownership of land as landlords do. The dominant ruling class of our time owns and controls information.

Reduced to nothing but users, and our actions forced into the commodity form, our collective work and play produces a world over and against us, one that massively persists in its own habits of functioning. Worse, collective human labor made a world for a ruling class that keeps making not only itself but us in its image.


McKenzie Wark, Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019)