https://iamcr.org/webinars/war-peace-digitalcapitalism
The International Association for Media and Communication Research’s
Political Economy Section host a webinar where Christian Fuchs will
introduce his book „World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital
Capitalism“.
When: Tuesday 18 November, 2025 @18h00 CEST/ 09h00 Los Angeles / 12h00
New York / 17h00 London / 18h00 Berlin / 20h00 Nairobi / 22h30 Kolkata.
The event will last 1 hour.
Registration by 16 November here:
https://forms.gle/iQEUuS7VmCPmXZ48A
In this talk, Christian Fuchs introduces some aspects of his book „World
War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism“. World politics
has become highly polarised. We live in times when a new world war has
become more likely. The United Nations’ 2024 Pact for the Future
expresses concerns about ”the growing risks of a nuclear war which could
pose an existential threat to humanity“. Will humanity descend into
barbarism and world war, or will we realise the dangers of our global
problems, weapons of mass destruction, and the threats posed by a
potential new world war, and a climate catastrophe in order to avoid
annihilation and create perpetual world peace?
The book deals with violence, world war, and world peace in global
digital capitalism. It asks: How do violence and war manifest themselves
in global digital capitalism? How do digital capitalism and digital
technologies manifest themselves in violence and warfare? What are the
prospects for world peace today? In order to prevent world war and
advance world peace, we need a better understanding of war and violence
and of their contexts and causes. We need to ask what war is, what
violence is, what war and peace look like today and how they have
changed in the 21st century.
Open access and afforable paperback version of the book:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/mpub.13082283
Christian Fuchs. 2025. World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital
Capitalism. London: University of Westminster Press. ISBN
978-1-915445-77-3 (pbk), 978-1-915445-78-0 (pdf), 978-1-915445-79-7
(epub), 978-1-915445-80-3 (mobi). 360 pages.
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