Domínio do capital, redes tecnológicas e inovação na política

novos territórios ou a busca por saídas

Abstract

This theoretical article aims to understand innovation in politics with the advent of the Internet from the 1990s onwards, emphasizing social movements that affect governments and States in partnerships with the market. It questions whether innovations, such as the Internet, can become setbacks with their institutionalization and incorporation by the political dynamics inherent to contemporary capitalism. Two axes are outlined. The first refers to Internet technologies at the service of capital, showing their role in the processes of globalization, productive restructuring and corporate flexibilization, which were accompanied by a social occupation of the Internet and urban territories. The consequence was the formation of social networks, structured as digital platforms, constituting the largest companies in the world in terms of market value and a social and territorial domination based on virtual sociability. The second axis highlights the global far right as a new political bet of capital that, by appropriating the digital protest repertoire in the ruins of neoliberalismo, begins to threaten the electoral processes of liberal democracies, with evidence of corporate support, and digital platforms favor the proliferation of far-right content, reflecting a threat to the ways of life established in urban territories. Finally, the article reflects on ways out of the dominance of capital: whether it be protesting from the territories so that the internet is merely a place of passage; or acting “within and against” the internet itself, with the creation of environments that escape corporate domination to reach urban territories.