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cognitive powern.
The American and Chinese BigStates, flanked by their Big Tech, are manufacturing the next frontier of the very concept of empire : the “cognitive empire”, stretching the contours of the concept of power itself, which now rests on a triple anchoring : — Economic and industrial, through the concentration of technological capital ; — Symbolic, through the structuring of meaning and language ; — Cognitive, through control over the very conditions of thought.
First public appearance — 13 November 2021, Rencontres Annuelles des Lanceurs d’Alerte · États d’urgence / État de droit / État d’Alerte ↗
After the legislative, executive, judicial and media powers, a fifth power now imposes itself: cognitive power.
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