Javier Echeverría's '¡No hay derecho!' Critiques Tech-Feudal Domination

Philosopher Javier Echeverría's new book, '¡No hay derecho! Contra las nubes y la tecnodominación feudal' (published by Ediciones asimétricas), argues that digital clouds and networks have created a new tech-feudal power that surpasses most nation-states. Echeverría contends that since the UN's World Summit on the Information Society (2003-2005) left cyberspace to private initiative, the tech-social space has become massive yet undemocratic. He criticizes 'Lords of Networks and Clouds' for imposing leonine rules on users, with only China and the US actively intervening. The book analyzes the socio-legal dimension of this power and lists imperatives like 'connect!', 'digitize!', 'accept!', 'update!', 'be transparent!', 'enjoy!', and above all, 'obey!'. Echeverría proposes personal and communal appropriation of electronic data and communication technologies (TeDIC) to create small autonomous, egalitarian, free, and solidary 'techno-republics'. The author, born in Pamplona in 1948, is a renowned essayist and philosopher of science and technology, with previous works including 'Telépolis' (1994), 'Los Señores del Aire' (1999, National Essay Prize), and 'Tecnopersonas' (2020, 2023). He is a full academician of Jakiunde (Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters) and the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and has edited unpublished manuscripts by Leibniz and Ortega y Gasset.