MECM90041 Chap.10 Tech Oligarchy, Bureaucracy and Resistance

Tech Oligarchy, Bureaucracy and Resistance

Weeks six and seven lack lecture decks. The guide uses tutorials, a topic description and readings, keeping inaccessible guest content and link-only texts outside substantive claims.

Tech oligarchy concerns concentrated infrastructure, wealth and political access. It is distinct from far-right ideology and fascism. The profile method asks questions without characterising named living people.

Poetic and bureaucratic technologies lead into resistance through imagination, procedure and material capacity.

Chapter guide expansion. · C10 · AVAILABLE RECORD CHAPTER 10 · PAGE 1 SOURCE BOUNDARY Weeks six and seven require careful source boundaries Tutorials, a topic page and readings replace missing lecture decks No lecture deck is available for either guest week.

Week six survives as a video-file stub plus a tutorial and set reading; week seven survives as a topic description, tutorial and readings, two of which are link-only. The analysis below therefore distinguishes tutorial questions from published scholarship and does not narrate inaccessible lectures.

Available record Week Readable teaching Boundary 6 Tutorial profile method and reactionary-tech-oligarchy reading No lecture content beyond a file stub 7 Topic description, tutorial debate and Palantir case reading Two Graeber texts are link-only 7 support Notice that content may be challenging and a support policy exists Policy text and contact details are not reproduced Phase recap Later deck names both themes Presenter names are omitted Thin does not mean empty The tutorial questions supply an analytical method and the readings supply arguments; attribution keeps those roles separate.

Link-only means narrow quotation For Graeber, use only the brief passages included in the tutorial, not a reconstructed article argument. When the teaching record is incomplete, the source boundary becomes part of the analysis. ATTRIBUTION C10.1 SOURCE CHECK AskSia practice Prompt. Can a tutorial question establish that a public figure holds an ideology? Worked answer. No. It establishes the analytical question.

Any attribution requires reliable, contextual evidence and careful wording. i Continuing thin spot This is one of the two least deck-supported chapters. It is strongest as a method chapter and weakest as a reconstruction of guest-lecture content.

· · C10 · TECH OLIGARCHY CHAPTER 10 · PAGE 2 DEFINITION Tech oligarchy joins economic and political power Infrastructure ownership can become governing access ECONOMIC POWER POLITICAL POWER TECH OLIGARCHY?

ownership · infrastructure access · contracting analyse relations; do not substitute biography for structure Figure 10.1. A rebuilt overlap model: tech oligarchy is investigated where economic infrastructure and political access reinforce each other. The tutorial asks students to define far-right ideology, fascism and tech oligarchy before profiling a technology figure. The terms must not be treated as synonyms.

Tech oligarchy concerns concentrated economic and political power around technical infrastructure and elite access. Fascism and far-right ideology require their own historical and political criteria. A relation to one does not automatically establish the others.

Definition controls Term Analytical object Evidence discipline Tech oligarchy Concentrated infrastructure, wealth and political influence Ownership, contracting, access and governance Far-right ideology A defined ideological family Public statements, organisations and scholarly classification Fascism A specific contested historical-political category Explicit criteria and contextual scholarship Oligarchy Rule or influence by a small powerful group Mechanisms of access, veto and agenda power Biography is not structure A powerful founder may personify a relation but cannot replace analysis of markets, states, contracts and institutions.

Questions must remain questions The tutorial asks whether a relation exists and why. This guide does not turn that prompt into an assertion about any living person. PROFILE CONTROL CAREER + company + ideology evidence + political access NO LABEL BY ASSOCIATION C10.2 DEFINITION REPAIR AskSia practice Prompt. Repair: “A wealthy technology founder is an oligarch.” Worked answer.

Show concentrated infrastructure, political access and governing influence; wealth alone does not complete the claim. · · C10 · PROFILE METHOD CHAPTER 10 · PAGE 3 PROFILE METHOD The profile task is a method, not a verdict Career, company aims, ideology and oligarchy remain separate The week-six tutorial structures a profile around career, company aims, relation to far-right or fascist ideology, and relation to tech oligarchy.

The safest use is methodological: document each field, distinguish self-description from independent analysis, and state uncertainty. Named living figures offered by the class are not reproduced or characterised here. Four-field evidence table Field Evidence Question Career Roles, ownership and institutional history Which capacity and access accumulated? Company aims Public filings, products and

What this chapter covers

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  Source boundary

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  Tech oligarchy

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  Profile method

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  Poetic/bureaucratic technologies

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  Resistance and contracting

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Key terms

Tech oligarchy

Concentrated technical-economic power crossing into political influence.

Bureaucratic technology

Technique organising action through rules and procedure.

Resistance

Collective action linking imagination, institutions and material capacity.

Tech Oligarchy, Bureaucracy and Resistance FAQ

Assessment move

Define before profiling; attribute evidence; trace institution, infrastructure, rule and counter-evidence; avoid unsupported ideology claims.

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