Cyberpunk

An urgent and in-depth examination of the rapid transformation of the state, Cyberpunk maps the mounting threats to our democracies, the defining conflicts we’re likely to be facing in the century ahead, and how to reclaim our minds.

In Cyberpunk, Mhalla argues that Big Tech does not merely influence politics but is becoming the very architecture of how information flows. The control of civil society no longer operates primarily through censorship or repression, but through infrastructure—digital platforms, AI systems, cloud monopolies, and attention capture. They determine the boundaries of the thinkable. To Mhalla, Western democracies are transitioning toward a new, technologically-mediated regime, where our minds are the new political battlefields.

“A dazzling book, where urgency and intelligence permeate every page.”—John Jefferson Selve in Zone Critique

“[Defends] what we have left: our freedom.”—Slate