Post by account_disabled on Jan 27, 2024 6:23:43 GMT
Two years ago, French economist Cédric Durand published his book Technofeudalism. Criticism of the digital economy. The book, widely read in academic circles, did not reach public resonance until Varoufakis spoke about it, ensuring that capitalism is not in crisis, but that, taking advantage of new information and communication technologies, it has entered a new phase to which He and Durand call Technofeudalism , a new version of the exploitation of man by man in which the productive system remains in the background, subject to the hegemony of the large global digital platforms and companies, which are the ones that truly offer astronomical profitability. They undermine the power of democratic States until they become puppets of the new transnational corporations and offer a new world order based on something very similar to feudalism.
a system that, as everyone knows, was based on the legal institution called vassalage, that is, blind obedience or the payment of certain taxes to a lord - in this case a digital multinational under the umbrella of the Phone Number Database United States - in exchange for protecting him from the dangers that that lord, that multinational or that State considers them to be. It is not so easy to escape the new system of vassalage imposed by the hegemonic power through new technologies. It can be argued that calling the currently established order feudalism is an incongruity, given that in some states there are rights and freedoms protected by constitutions, that the United Nations drafted a charter of human rights subscribed to by many countries, that today anyone can escape from vassalage by moving country, job or family or that in the Middle Ages there was neither the combustion engine, nor Instagram, nor space probes that reach the stars.
However, it is not so easy to escape the new system of vassalage imposed by the hegemonic power through new technologies, because it is not something that affects a single country and because it is not something tangible by the community, but is directed to the individual and it is the latter who particularly submits to the new rules that force him, although he is not aware of it, to lose his right to privacy and freedom and impels him to sell himself without, in most cases, obtaining nothing in return, not even the protection of the new digital lord who, like the old ones, will only act if evil affects him or he feels his desires diminished. Elon Musk, a digital Cro-Magnon The digital individual, alienated by the machine, inhabiting a virtual reality, is a being lost to humanity, to the cause of progress. The new vassalage, which as we said is the main legal institution of feudalism, the one before and the one now, is shown in two aspects.
a system that, as everyone knows, was based on the legal institution called vassalage, that is, blind obedience or the payment of certain taxes to a lord - in this case a digital multinational under the umbrella of the Phone Number Database United States - in exchange for protecting him from the dangers that that lord, that multinational or that State considers them to be. It is not so easy to escape the new system of vassalage imposed by the hegemonic power through new technologies. It can be argued that calling the currently established order feudalism is an incongruity, given that in some states there are rights and freedoms protected by constitutions, that the United Nations drafted a charter of human rights subscribed to by many countries, that today anyone can escape from vassalage by moving country, job or family or that in the Middle Ages there was neither the combustion engine, nor Instagram, nor space probes that reach the stars.
However, it is not so easy to escape the new system of vassalage imposed by the hegemonic power through new technologies, because it is not something that affects a single country and because it is not something tangible by the community, but is directed to the individual and it is the latter who particularly submits to the new rules that force him, although he is not aware of it, to lose his right to privacy and freedom and impels him to sell himself without, in most cases, obtaining nothing in return, not even the protection of the new digital lord who, like the old ones, will only act if evil affects him or he feels his desires diminished. Elon Musk, a digital Cro-Magnon The digital individual, alienated by the machine, inhabiting a virtual reality, is a being lost to humanity, to the cause of progress. The new vassalage, which as we said is the main legal institution of feudalism, the one before and the one now, is shown in two aspects.