[Air-L] Book talk "World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism" (Christian Fuchs)

[Christian Fuchs]

https://iamcr.org/webinars/war-peace-digitalcapitalism

The International Association for Media and Communication Research’s 
Political Economy Section host a webinar where Christian Fuchs will 
introduce his book „World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital 
Capitalism“.

When: Tuesday 18 November, 2025 @18h00 CEST/ 09h00 Los Angeles / 12h00 
New York / 17h00 London / 18h00 Berlin / 20h00 Nairobi / 22h30 Kolkata. 
The event will last 1 hour.

Registration by 16 November here:
https://forms.gle/iQEUuS7VmCPmXZ48A

In this talk, Christian Fuchs introduces some aspects of his book „World 
War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism“. World politics 
has become highly polarised. We live in times when a new world war has 
become more likely. The United Nations’ 2024 Pact for the Future 
expresses concerns about ”the growing risks of a nuclear war which could 
pose an existential threat to humanity“. Will humanity descend into 
barbarism and world war, or will we realise the dangers of our global 
problems, weapons of mass destruction, and the threats posed by a 
potential new world war, and a climate catastrophe in order to avoid 
annihilation and create perpetual world peace?

The book deals with violence, world war, and world peace in global 
digital capitalism. It asks: How do violence and war manifest themselves 
in global digital capitalism? How do digital capitalism and digital 
technologies manifest themselves in violence and warfare? What are the 
prospects for world peace today? In order to prevent world war and 
advance world peace, we need a better understanding of war and violence 
and of their contexts and causes. We need to ask what war is, what 
violence is, what war and peace look like today and how they have 
changed in the 21st century.

Open access and afforable paperback version of the book:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/mpub.13082283
Christian Fuchs. 2025. World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital 
Capitalism. London: University of Westminster Press. ISBN 
978-1-915445-77-3 (pbk), 978-1-915445-78-0 (pdf), 978-1-915445-79-7 
(epub), 978-1-915445-80-3 (mobi). 360 pages.