Knowledge Capitalism, Hegemonic Transition, and Elections in the United States

Abstract The election of 2024 in the US determined who would oversee making policies to cope with increasing domestic and external demands driving structural adjustment to a new context. The evolution of knowledge capitalism implies a redistribution of core processes in the world-system and a relative loss of power by the US, coupled with changes in the hierarchy of structuring processes in all dimensions of social life. It implies the collapse of earlier configurations and a complex array of grievances and fears. This generates discontent and de-legitimation of formal and informal institutions that articulated prior configurations.