ContentsIntroduction: rise of the digital technocracy - global power and localresistance in a post-democratic world 1Garry Robson and lukasz Wordliczek1 The rise of the digital technocracy: what's in a name? 19lukasz WordliczekPART I THE ROAD TO THE DIGITAL TECHNOCRACY2 Aldous Huxley's blueprint for a brave new aristocracy: a newhistoricist analysis of the World Economic Forum and thetechnocratic great reset of the fourth industrial revolution 47John Klyczek3 Fear of a "scientific-technological elite": from Eisenhower's toBiden's farewell addresses - a useful category or obfuscatingrhetorical device? 88Michael Schaefer4 From technocracy to technocratic politics: a new conceptualmodel for analysing the relation between technoscience andpolitics 110Francesco Antonelli5 Digitization and AI in the transformation of power relations 122Jobst Landgrebe6 The net zero energy transition: opening the door to digitaltechnocracy? 141Cristina E. ParauPART II NATIONAL CASE STUDIES7 Ahmadinejad's populism: revolt against the "depoliticizationof technocracy" or the "return of politics" 167Alireza Samiee Esfahani8 Digital town squares: place as an analytical category forstudying contemporary protests 184Alesia Rudnik9 Cognitive warfare at the heart of China's strategy toundermine the West 201Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Kimberly Orinx and Simon Peiffer10 Affect and the smart city: fear, suspicion and technology inthe making of urban futures 220Eveleen Kaur Sidana11 Building the 'nerd reich'? The MAGA technocrats and thedigital hive 242Garry Robson.