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2023
Abstract This chapter deals with platform ‘despotism’. Certain platforms can indeed usefully be analogized to (quasi-)autocratic states whose benevolence is not a given. Can antitrust rationalize the ‘competition problem’ when such autocratic platforms take a despotic turn? This chapter argues that the answer is a qualified yes.
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Abstract This chapter deals with platform ‘despotism’. Certain platforms can indeed usefully be analogized to (quasi-)autocratic states whose benevolence is not a given. Can antitrust rationalize the ‘competition problem’ when such autocratic platforms take a despotic turn? This chapter argues that the answer is a qualified yes.
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2021
This chapter highlights India’s elective despotism. It begins by explaining ‘resort politics’. This is the Indian ritual of herding away lawmakers like rustled sheep to secure places, usually hotels and holiday resorts, to ‘protect’ them from rival parties.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury, John Keane
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This chapter highlights India’s elective despotism. It begins by explaining ‘resort politics’. This is the Indian ritual of herding away lawmakers like rustled sheep to secure places, usually hotels and holiday resorts, to ‘protect’ them from rival parties.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury, John Keane
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Abstract How should we understand the relationship between Roman slavery and Roman literature? This essay elucidates an account of the work of mastery—“despotics”—articulated in ancient Greek and Roman sources and argues that these concerns impinge on the work of literary production and consumption in the Roman world especially.
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2019
This chapter focuses on the reading of the ‘despotic’ Gurney script, which was so different from the Roman script that Dickens was used to decoding (section 3.1). It explores how Dickens was able to emerge from his initial state of bewilderment, described in David Copperfield as a ‘sea of perplexity’, by training himself in visualizing its character ...
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This chapter focuses on the reading of the ‘despotic’ Gurney script, which was so different from the Roman script that Dickens was used to decoding (section 3.1). It explores how Dickens was able to emerge from his initial state of bewilderment, described in David Copperfield as a ‘sea of perplexity’, by training himself in visualizing its character ...
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Monthly Review
In this review of Bit Tyrants by Rob Larson, Mateo Crossa finds and expands on how the powerful actors of Silicon Valley have fashioned themselves into the new, unapologetic robber barons, operating in the shadows of political lobbying to maintain their monopolistic practices in the Global North while shamelessly engaging in the naked exploitation of ...
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In this review of Bit Tyrants by Rob Larson, Mateo Crossa finds and expands on how the powerful actors of Silicon Valley have fashioned themselves into the new, unapologetic robber barons, operating in the shadows of political lobbying to maintain their monopolistic practices in the Global North while shamelessly engaging in the naked exploitation of ...
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Machinic dispossession and augmented despotism: Digital work in an Amazon warehouse
New Media and Society, 2021Alessandro Delfanti
exaly
Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master–Slave Relation
Philosophy and Technology, 2023exaly
Digital Despotism and Aristotle: Exploring Concepts of Ownership
Philosophy and Technology, 2023Estelle Clements
exaly