Digital spiritual power represents a new paradigm of power dominance of the neoliberal spiritual politics; primarily supported by digital technology as the base level and reflecting the deep relationships between power and human desire, consciousness, and emotion, it marks a new paradigm of power operation in the realm of spiritual life, constructed through the collusion between spiritual power and digital technology. In the era of digital capitalism, the deployment of digital spiritual power has a specific mechanism; it primarily follows the logic of capital, uses spiritual disciplining as its core method, employs cybernetic prison as its technological tool, and utilizes perceptual infiltration as its main approach.Compared to traditional paradigms of power dominance, digital spiritual power possesses great permeability, high invisibility and limitless expansibility, thereby becoming the main paradigm of power in the era of digital capitalism.
Editor: Zhong Yao Wei Xiaoxue
From: World Socialism Studies.2024.No.2.