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Intensification of the polycrisis and the rise of a technooligarchic ideology in the USA
ID Vrečko Ilc, Blaž (Author)

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Abstract
The article analyses the techno-oligarchic ideology in the USA during the 2nd Trump Administration and the implications it holds for tackling the climate/ecological crisis. It argues that this ideology is a novel, far-right political ideology of the US techno-oligarchy whose rise was predicated on intensification of the polycrisis. Its central purpose is to expand the techno-oligarchy’s influence, power and wealth, and squash opposition to its dominance and any visions/policies that critically interrogate the existing ecologically unsustainable capitalist model of growth and technological development. By analysing its central characteristics, its re-imagining of the state and political institutions via the introduction of AI, and in the context of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the article shows that its novel nature stems from the centrality of technological development and technology(ies) in its oligarchic, anti-democratic, repressive, neo-imperial, eugenic, hyper-capitalist, extractive and destructive vision of society.

Language:English
Keywords:techno-oligarchy, political ideology, polycrisis, technology, AI, genocide
Work type:Article
Typology:1.02 - Review Article
Geographic coverage:Združene države Amerike;
Organization:FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2025
Number of pages:Str. 297-456
Numbering:Letn. 62, št. 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-171076 This link opens in a new window
UDC:32
ISSN on article:0040-3598
DOI:0.51936/tip.62.2.279 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:244045315 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:01.08.2025
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Title:Teorija in praksa
Shortened title:Teor. praksa
Publisher:Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
ISSN:0040-3598
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Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Title:Intenziviranje polikrize in vzpon tehnooligarhične ideologije v ZDA
Abstract:
Članek analizira vzpon tehnooligarhične ideologije v ZDA v kontekstu druge Trumpove administracije ter njen potencialni učinek na reševanje ekološke krize. V tem okviru razkrivamo, da gre za novo skrajno desno politično ideologijo ameriške tehnooligarhije, ki je povezana z intenziviranjem polikrize. Trdimo, da je temeljni namen te ideologije krepitev moči, vpliva in bogastva tehnooligarhije ter hkrati zatiranje uporov proti njeni dominaciji in utišanje kritičnih pogledov ter zamišljanj, ki problematizirajo obstoječi, ekološko nevzdržen in netrajnosten kapitalistični model rasti in tehnološkega razvoja. Na podlagi analize temeljnih značilnosti ideologije ter načina, kako si zamišlja državo in politične institucije skozi sistematično vpeljavo umetne inteligence – v kontekstu izraelskega genocida nad Palestinci –, v članku pokažemo, da novost te ideologije tiči v osrednji vlogi, ki jo igrata tehnologija in tehnološki razvoj. Slednja namreč predstavljata temelj oligarhične, nedemokratične, represivne, neoimperialne, evgenične, hiperkapitalistične, ekstrakcijske, destruktivne vizije družbe, ki jo ta ideologija zagovarja.

Keywords:tehnooligarhija, politična ideologija, polikriza, tehnologija, UI, genocid

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