This book is a must-read to understand the ever-present and intensifying horrors of technocapitalism.

Alexander A. Dunlap, University of Helsinki

The scourge of technocapitalism plays an outsized role in producing increased social precarity, global ecological harm, and pernicious threats to democracy. Peter Little persuasively communicates the urgency of this historic moment in which we find ourselves, and demonstrates how multiscalar analyses and actions can effectively support environmental health, just tech, and radical care.

David N. Pellow, UC Santa Barbara

This compelling, powerful book addresses our time’s most pressing and complicated issues. Peter Little scrutinizes Big Tech, the electronic industry and the techno power hegemony that produces and continues reproducing techno and toxic colonies in desperate places. Employing rich ethnographic observations, political ecology analysis and succinct techno-capital critique, the book navigates, gathers, and connects critical and complex concerns of global techno-capitalism. A timely book about our overheating planet.

Samwel Moses Ntapanta, Aarhus University

Through lively prose and an eclectic methodology, Critical Zones of Technopower brilliantly analyzes the interface of emergent digital platforms, viral pandemics, and old and new forms of material plunder. This book covers a vast range of topics, including Big Tech, robots and automation, Artificial Intelligence, the post-pandemic Digital Reset, the Green New Deal, the billionaire space race, Smart Cities, degrowth, e-waste, viral biomarkers, ocean-based fiber optics, semiconductor facilities, and surveillance technologies. Author Peter C. Little critically interrogates these topics through a sophisticated understanding of the rise and proliferation of new forms of authoritarianism, toxic waste, climate cataclysm, and the deepening inequality and precarity of our technocapitalist world. Articulating a prescient and biting political ecological critique of the planet’s most perilous tech-fueled obsessions and consequences, Critical Zones of Technopower serves as a clarion call for intellectuals and activists searching for more just socio-technological and environmental futures.

Daniel Renfrew, West Virginia University; author of Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay