The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the history of empire and pushes back against narratives of total domination. Instead he spotlights the unstable bargains, intermediary classes, and mutual dependencies that sustained imperial systems. Digital capitalism is a contested political formation—one that requires a new “Silicon Bandung” to challenge it.