With a style that oscillates between punk informality and scholarly rigor, *Capitalism Is Dead* analyzes the causes and consequences of the new political economy of information: an invisible vector of Big Data that dominates the entire production process and, in recent decades, has brought the capitalist class itself under its control. Therefore, Wark argues, this is no longer capitalism, but something even worse. The legendary author of *A Hacker Manifesto* takes us on a historical journey that delves into the origins of the "vector class," from the Cold War and the neoliberal struggle against the working class, through the birth of Microsoft and Deng Xiaoping's China. Starting from a critical revision of the Marxist tradition, Wark's thinking "hacks" inherited languages ​​and proposes a "vulgar" interpretation of texts, distancing itself from any nostalgia for the past. God is dead. Communism is dead. And now it seems it's capitalism's turn. Could what's coming be worse?

"What if we consider an emerging production model that comes after capitalism? Today, capital has been subsumed under an even more abstract form of technical power. The vector class possesses the vectors of information, copyrights, patents and trademarks, logistics systems, financial tools, and algorithms.

Isn't it possible, then, that there have been enough transformations to break with the old capitalist production model? Perhaps it isn't the same old essence of capitalism, so well-known and familiar, that is hiding in new guises."