Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)

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Gilbert and Williams argue, however, that Gramsci’s concepts, especially if updated to accommodate the complexity of the contemporary world, are crucial for analysing power relations in the current conjuncture. I particularly enjoyed the integration of 'New Left' poststructuralist thinkers to understand the complexity of class and coalition building today, with Deleuze and Gattari's concept of 'multiplicity' being instructive for me. Furthermore, while there is quite extensive discussion of The World Transformed (TWT) and Momentum as the main grassroots movements in the UK, the book doesn’t acknowledge the many activists who came from Occupy and the student movement to grow Momentum and TWT, putting energy into the electoral hope of a victory for the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. They argue that platform capitalism poses major challenges for progressive politics, but may also offer opportunities for collective organisation.

Another is debt, which works to reduce the horizon of possibilities that individual subjects can imagine as realisable.

Through upgrading the concept of hegemony-understanding the importance of passive consent; the complexity of political interests; and the structural force of technology-Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams offer us an updated theory of power for the twenty-first century. They warn that neoliberal values, policies, and worldviews have been deeply embedded in the infrastructures that have been created by platform technology and that even if neoliberalism ceases to be the dominant paradigm, it will take time to undo.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Historical subjects can therefore simultaneously have complex, contradictory and competing sets of interests which might emerge given different contexts and perceived possibilities and horizons.I understand where they are coming from, but I do wonder whether in practice the end result would be limited reforms that are eventually dissipated by a Thermidorian revanche of capitalist interest, rather than creating a gathering wave of progressive change that Gilbert and Williams imagine. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Gilbert and Williams offer practical and hopeful strategies for changing the "directions of travel" of the contemporary conjuncture - especially in the U.