technofeudalism

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techno- +‎ feudalism

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technofeudalism (uncountable)

  1. A feudal system of government and property organization in which economic and social power is concentrated in a few technological and digital companies.
    • 2022 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review[1], number 133/134, pages 89–126:
      Plus, it makes a good meme. The hungry crowds on Reddit and Twitter love it: a YouTube video of a discussion on techno-feudalism by Varoufakis and Slavoj Žižek garnered over 300,000 views in just three weeks.
    • 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine[2]:
      This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.
    • 2023, Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism[3], Random House, →ISBN:
      Specifically, the Great Inflation and cost-of-living crisis that have followed the recent pandemic cannot be properly understood outside the context of technofeudalism.

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