technofeudalism en · NOUN
Etymology
From techno- + feudalism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A feudal system of government and property organization in which economic and social power is concentrated in a few technological and digital companies.
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 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review, number 133/134, pages 89–126:This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.
2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:Specifically, the Great Inflation and cost-of-living crisis that have followed the recent pandemic cannot be properly understood outside the context of technofeudalism.
2023, Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Random House, →ISBN:Near-synonym: neofeudalism
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| techno-feudalism | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
technocapitalism · tech baron · technofeudal · techlord · technofeudalist · Big Tech
Synonyms
Translations (5)
pl technofeudalizm (Translations) · ca tecnofeudalisme (Translations) · es tecnofeudalismo (Translations) · fr technoféodalisme (Translations) · pt tecnofeudalismo (Translations)