Technology and Development Seminar: The cybernetic circulation complex

Technology, Inequality and Development Research Group

Join us for the launch of Cybernetic Circulation Complex, the new book by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni. The book introduces the concept of the Cybernetic Circulation Complex (CCC) to describe how Big Tech has become capitalism’s circulatory system—accelerating the flows of commodities, information, finance, and antagonisms that now structure the global economy. From Amazon’s cloud empires to Alphabet’s algorithmic advertising and Apple’s planetary app culture, the CCC is shown to be both the driver of accumulation and a generator of planetary crises—ecological, political, and social.

Combining Marxist theory, political economy, and ecological critique, Dyer-Witheford situates Big Tech alongside military-industrial complexes, financial capital, and biospheric breakdown. Yet the book does not stop at diagnosis: it explores possibilities for resistance, counter-power, and what the authors call biocommunism—a radical repurposing of networks for equality and ecological survival .

This event will feature Nick Dyer-Witheford in conversation, offering insights into the making of the book and its implications for understanding capitalism in the age of digital empires and planetary crisis.
Speakers
Nick Dyer-Witheford is associate professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. His research studies the political economy of media and technology from a Marxist perspective. His work examines how technology and the internet intersect with modern capitalism and class conflict.

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Host or Publisher Department of International Development, KCL