Some socialists don’t like the terms “neo-feudalism” or “techno-feudalism”, because they are afraid it will distract from the ...

Labour has promised that, come what may, they will not be increasing taxes on ‘working people’. Well, jolly good. Those of us ...

If not, then perhaps we can regulate Big Tech by means of legislation harking back to the United States' 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. Lina Khan, the chairperson of the US federal Trade Commission, is ...

The debates over hate speech and censorship exist nearly everywhere, as Big Data generates what Yanis Varoufakis (2023) terms ...

through the deadly neoliberal era of US dollarisation of the world economy to the present phase of ‘techno-feudalism’ (Varoufakis), ‘datafeudalism’ (Carlos García) or ‘techno-capitalism ...

Techno: A universal language. No matter your native tongue, the myriad beats that define the genre can be understood by all. By cultivating emotions, causing movement, forming sounds and ...

As American civic life has become increasingly shaped by algorithms, trust in government has plummeted. Is there any turning ...

Feudalism had its faults as well as its merits; but it never conceived anything so contemptible of degrading to the character of a man as the flunkeyism that surrounded LOUIS XIV. and symbolized ...

You can view companies such as Uber (Izabella Kaminska over at FT Alphaville has written extensively about the idea of techno-feudalism) and the rise of the gig economy as yet another way to erode ...

But one might argue that the essay leans too far in the techno-utopianist direction, making claims simply unsupported by fact. Amodei believes that “powerful AI” will arrive as soon as 2026.