{"product_id":"the-capitalist-tongue-9798235705432","title":"The Capitalist Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher Julian Lowery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Christopher Julian Lowery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Christopher Julian Lowery\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish did not conquer the world through culture or empire. It became the global operating system because the modern world - its markets, technologies, institutions, and intelligent machines - required a language with the right cognitive architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Capitalist Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e, Christopher Julian Lowery reveals the hidden system behind English's rise: a structural convergence of capitalism, science, technology, and global governance that transformed English from a colonial artifact into the linguistic infrastructure of globalization itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross fourteen sweeping chapters, Lowery traces how English became: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003ecurrency of opportunity\u003c\/strong\u003e in nations like the Philippines and India\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003egateway to modernization\u003c\/strong\u003e in China and Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003eeconomic survival tool\u003c\/strong\u003e in Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003elinguistic capital\u003c\/strong\u003e that determines who participates in global markets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003ecognitive interface\u003c\/strong\u003e through which billions learn to think analytically\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe \u003cstrong\u003edefault language of AI\u003c\/strong\u003e, shaping the future of human reasoning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about grammar, nostalgia, or cultural preference.It is a book about \u003cstrong\u003esystems\u003c\/strong\u003e - and the language those systems selected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowery argues that English is no longer merely spoken. It is embedded in the architecture of global life: in programming languages, scientific journals, international law, digital platforms, and the reasoning patterns of the modern mind. English is the protocol of globalization, the metadata of the internet, and the cognitive substrate of artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this rise comes with consequences: local languages decline, cognitive diversity narrows, inequality deepens, and global power concentrates around those who control the linguistic infrastructure of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Capitalist Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is a groundbreaking examination of the world's most influential language - and a provocative argument about what happens when capitalism, technology, and cognition fuse into a single linguistic system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Nicholas Carr, and macro-systems thinkers, this book offers a new lens on the world we inherited, the world we built, and the world we are becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Julian Lowery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882881663127,"sku":"9798235705432","price":1914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235705432.webp?v=1781097729","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-capitalist-tongue-9798235705432","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}