Every day trillions of dollars circulate the globe in a digital data space and new forms of
property and ownership emerge. Massive corporate entities with a global reach are formed and
disappear with breathtaking speed making and breaking personal fortunes the size of which defy
imagination. Fictitious commodities abound. The genomes of entire nations have become
corporately owned. Relationships have become the overt basis of economic wealth and political
power. Hypercapitalism explores the problems of understanding this emergent form of global
political economic organization by focusing on the internal relations between language new
media networks and social perceptions of value. Taking an historical approach informed by Marx
Phil Graham draws upon writings in political economy media studies sociolinguistics
anthropology and critical social science to understand the development roots and trajectory
of the global system in which every possible aspect of human existence including imagined
futures has become a commodity form.
