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Cecilia Rikap

@ceciliarikap.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social

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International Tax Observatory@taxobservatory.bsky.social · 6d ago

2/ AI draws on knowledge built collectively. Yet its most powerful models are controlled by a handful of private companies—concentrating wealth and power over our future. Who owns AI and who profits from it? What alternative models of ownership and governance could make AI a shared resource?

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Rachel Griffin@rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · last mo.

I reviewed @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's The Rulers for @jlpe.bsky.social, focusing on what tech law and law & political scholars can take away from it + making some connections with other LPE scholarship (wish I had more space to mention everything 😅) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Book review: Cecilia Rikap, The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI andthe Cloud (Verso, 2026)

Cecilia Rikap’s new book, The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud, will be essential reading for anyone interested in the political economy o

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · last mo.

I got to speak with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social about The Rulers: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... and will release our conversation on Oct 26 on The Data Fix podcast. Please read this book and subscribe to the pod. You don't want to miss this one!

The Rulers

Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Gi...

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Christoph Sorg@christophsorg.bsky.social · last mo.

Very excited for the kick-off conference of my new Einstein Foundation research project next week. Featuring lots of empirical work on corporate, financial and state planning and a @futurehistories.bsky.social Live Episode. Registration, timetable etc. here: buff.ly/ciCXIxB

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Future Histories LAB@futurehistories-lab.com · last mo.

Excited to announce our media partnership with the 'Age of Planning?' conference at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social organized by @christophsorg.bsky.social, and with a Future Histories LIVE recording with @iliasalami.bsky.social and Dylan Riley. Find out more: buff.ly/ciCXIxB

Cecilia Rikap@ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People may think that "Digital Public Infrastructure" refers to public sector data centers, satellites and cables. Well, 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭. It bundles digital services and has contributed to rendering the actual digital infrastructure invisible. Check my latest at @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Link 👇

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conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

finally started this and it’s as good as @bentarnoff.com said. when I say I want critics to please be serious, this is what I mean. in order to fight big tech you have to actually look at what it does and where its power comes from. you can’t just think about the consumer-facing surface

Cecilia Rikap@ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New review of my book "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the age of AI and the Cloud" @versobooks.bsky.social was published at the London School of Economics' review of books Read it here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... Let's work to make utopias real!!

INDEP@lndep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A book authored by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social has been published by @versobooks.bsky.social were Rikap critiques the development of AI and cloud computing under capitalism and details how technological development can done through democratic economic planning. www.indep.network/new-book-by-...

New Book By Cecilia Rikap Argues For Development Of Technology Through Democratic Economic Planning

A new book has been published by Verso from Cecilia Rikap of the University College London. In the book, Rikap critiques the development of AI and cloud computing under contemporary capitalism and…

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Cecilia Rikap@ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thanks for this review of my book "The Rulers" at @mediapart.fr, @romaricgodin.bsky.social It is a great synthesis of my take on how corporate power is built in today's capitalism and why it is different from its previous forms. @versobooks.bsky.social French speakers, read it here:

Le pouvoir des monopoles technologiques passé au crible

Dans son dernier ouvrage, « The Rulers », l’économiste Cecilia Rikap décrit la nature originale de la domination exercée par les géants du numérique. Leur contrôle direct et indirect sur l’ensemble d…

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Diana Cariboni@dianacariboni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Entrevisté a @ceciliarikap.bsky.social para @opendemocracy.net 'Los monopolios intelectuales no nos dominan solamente xq controlan algoritmos y datos; controlan también las narrativas que debilitan la capacidad de imaginar alternativas' www.opendemocracy.net/es/nube-ia-m... @opendemocracy.net

Nube, IA y monopolios intelectuales:¿quiénes son los verdaderos dueños del poder digital?

Economista Cecilia Rikap: ‘Los monopolios intelectuales no nos dominan solo porque controlan algoritmos y datos; controlan también las narrativas que debilitan la capacidad de imaginar alternativas’

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Cecilia Rikap@ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New review of my book "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the age of AI and the Cloud" @versobooks.bsky.social was published at the London School of Economics' review of books Read it here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... Let's work to make utopias real!!

Big Tech and the rise of intellectual monopolies - LSE Review of Books

The Rulers by Cecilia Rikap argues Big Tech rules through networked capitalism & intellectual monopolies, controlling knowledge, digital infrastructures & data

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LSE Review of Books@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Big Tech and the rise of intellectual monopolies The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @iipp-ucl.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Review by @timchristiaens.bsky.social @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social

Diana Cariboni@dianacariboni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢MUST READ @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's 'The Rulers' Meanwhile, here you have an excerpt featured by @opendemocracy.net AI as ‘bullshit innovation’: How corporations monopolise our imaginations www.opendemocracy.net/clouds-ai-am...

AI as ‘bullshit innovation’: How corporations monopolise our imaginations

Products like self-driving cars or humanoid robots are not meant to be sold or widely adopted by the public, but rather to position the corporation as a driving force of frontier technological change

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