The Politics of Cyberculture in the Age of the Virtual Class John Armitage Totalitarianism is latent in technology. It was not merely Hitler or Mussolini who were totalitarian, or the Pharaohs as far as I am concerned.
Totalitarianism is already present in the technical object.
4 Neoliberalism is of course a political philosophy which originated in the advanced countries in the 1980s. However, while pan-capitalism appears largely impregnable to various oppositional political forces and survives broadly uncontested, it nonetheless relies extensively on a specifically neoliberal discourse of technology. Actually, as far as some neoliberals are concerned, technology is now the only factor of production . The primary category of the political economy of virtual reality is abuse value. Things are valued for the injury that can be done to them or that they can do.