{"product_id":"cyberpunk-asma-mhalla-9781644216033","title":"Cyberpunk: The New Totalitarianism","description":"\u003cb\u003eAsma Mhalla's wildly popular \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk \u003c\/i\u003eis a prescient, urgent deep dive into techno-political totalitarianism with more than 50,000 copies sold since its release in France.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrench political scientist Mhalla interrogates how the marriage of Big Tech with anti-democratic shifts in government toward totalitarianism is transforming our brains into political battlefields. To Mhalla, control of civil society no longer operates primarily through censorship or repression, but through infrastructure--digital platforms, AI systems, cloud monopolies, and attention capture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk\u003c\/i\u003e, Mhalla argues that Big Tech does not merely influence politics, it constitutes a parallel sovereignty; that \"free speech\" rhetoric is increasingly used as a structural double bind; that AI systems are not only tools but cognitive infrastructures shaping the boundaries of the thinkable; and that Western democracies may be transitioning toward a post-liberal configuration without formal rupture. She sees contemporary U.S. politics not as a return to historical fascism, but as the emergence of a new, technologically mediated regime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith parallels to the writings of Slavoj Zizek and Karen Hao's \u003ci\u003eEmpire of AI\u003c\/i\u003e, Cyberpunk is something new: an urgent, in-depth examination of the rapid transformation of the State, the mounting threats to our democracies, and the defining conflicts we're likely to be facing in the century ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asma Mhalla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644216035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644216033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Asma Mhalla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874715250943,"sku":"9781644216033","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cyberpunk-asma-mhalla-9781644216033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}