![]() ![]() But he’s less concerned about surveillance capitalism per se than what he sees as a weaponised front in the west’s battle for hegemony and control.Įntitled Surveillance Valley, the book’s subtitle is The Secret Military History of the Internet, and this is the focus of Levine’s often diligent investigations. His latest book targets the tech industry, which, let’s face it, is a massive and deserving target. His polemical method is to assemble all the supporting evidence he can find for his thesis and skirt round or dismiss anything that gets in its way. One of his previous books was entitled The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell, which portrayed the celebrated New Yorker writer as a shill for big pharma and the tobacco industry. His background is in a certain kind of fashionable radicalism, set on exposing liberal hypocrisy from an anticapitalist perspective. Yasha Levine, an American investigative reporter of Russian extraction, was born in the Soviet Union. ![]()
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