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In [[recent ]] years, techno-[[scientific ]] [[progress ]] has started to utterly transform our [[world ]] – changing it almost beyond [[recognition]]. In this extraordinary new book, renowned [[philosopher ]] [[Slavoj Žižek ]] turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx’s prediction that ‘all that is solid melts into air.’ With the automation of [[work]], the virtualisation of [[money]], the dissipation of [[class ]] communities and the rise of immaterial, [[intellectual ]] labour, the [[global ]] [[capitalist ]] edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before-and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.

But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic [[change ]] take [[place]]? In such a context, Žižek argues, there can be no great [[social ]] triumph – because lasting [[revolution ]] has already come into the [[scene]], like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into [[sight ]] [[right ]] before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it.