It is certainly the case that technological advances such as automation are ‘disrupting’ existing companies and old business models. But will they ‘disrupt’ capitalism itself? Or will capitalism’s capacity for self-invention save it from collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions? Zuboff and Bastani approach this question from opposite angles: Zuboff is anxious to save capitalism from its own excesses and deformations, whereas Bastani wants to free the emancipatory potential of technology from the limitations imposed on it by the imperative of accumulation…