Meaning of technofeudalism | Babel Free

Definitions

A feudal system of government and property organization in which economic and social power is concentrated in a few technological and digital companies.

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“Near-synonym: neofeudalism”

“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.”

“This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.”

“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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