technocapitalism

English

Alternative forms

• techno-capitalism, tech-capitalism

Etymology

From techno- +‎ capitalism.

Noun

technocapitalism (uncountable)

1. A form of capitalism associated with the emergence of new technology sectors and the power of corporations.
   • 2001, Joe L. Kincheloe, Getting Beyond the Facts: Teaching Social Studies/social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century‎^[1], Counterpoints, →ISBN, page 82:

     Technocapitalism, as Doug Kellner (1989) describes it, becomes increasingly multinational as new technologies, such as satellite TV and computers, carry forms of mass consumer culture throughout the world, colonizing previously […]

   • 2019 December 25, Jeff Wallace, “Letters: On reflection: don’t play it loud”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     John Harris is right. Resistance to online culture is not about “sounding hopelessly old”, but about shaping a future beyond the stupidification of technocapitalism.

Related terms

• technocapital
• technocapitalist