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technofeudalism

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

Noun

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.
    • 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.2022 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review, number 133/134, pages 89–126
    Synonyms:
    neofeudalism

Examples of technofeudalism in a sentence

  • This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine: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:

Synonyms of technofeudalism

Forms of technofeudalism

alternative formtechno-feudalism

Origin of technofeudalism

From techno- + feudalism.

Questions about technofeudalism

What does technofeudalism mean?
Technofeudalism means a feudal system of government and property organization in which economic and social power is concentrated in a few technological and digital companies.
How do you use technofeudalism in a sentence?
This is the vision underlying the technofeudalism thesis, which holds that 21st-century capitalism has been superseded by a new economic system overseen by Big Tech.
What part of speech is technofeudalism?
Technofeudalism is a noun.

Words near technofeudalism in the dictionary

  1. technofetishism
  2. technofetishist
  3. technofetishistic
  4. technofetishists
  5. technofeudal
  6. technofeudalism
  7. technofeudalist
  8. technofeudalists
  9. technofinance
  10. technofix
  11. technofixes

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