On "techno-feudalism".
In the Bungacast Reading Club for patrons, we've been discussing various works on "neo-feudalism" - a thesis that tries to explain capitalist stagnation and inequality by arguing that we are moving beyond capitalism – toward something worse.
In this free episode, we discuss one of the most thoroughgoing critiques of this thesis: Evgeny Morozov's "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason".
Why has this thesis becomes so popular today, across the political spectrum? What is the economic and political logic of feudalism, and how do current trends supposedly indicate a resurgence of these logics? Why have Marxists, who draw such a clear line between feudalism and capitalism, believe that politically-driven expropriation is replacing exploitation?
And how do Big Tech companies make money - purely through rent, or do they produce commodities?
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Readings:
/440/ Dear Tradmother, Why Are You Sad? ft. Amber A'Lee Frost (sample)
/439/ We Can Shape Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus
/438/ You Are Being Enlisted into the Culture War ft. Andrew Hartman
/437/ Climate Change Is Not an Information Problem ft. Holly Buck (sample)
/436/ Slovakia's Four World Directions ft. Dominik Zelinsky
UNLOCKED: /419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford
/435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII (sample)
/434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)
/433/ Aufhebonus Bonus – August 2024 (sample)
/432/ Median Left Thought and its Monsters ft. Ben Burgis (sample)
/431/ The Myth of Monolithic China ft. Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri
/430/ Welcome to the Tourist Age ft. Marco d'Eramo
/429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
/427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
/426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/425/ Reading Club: Russia's Imitation Democracy (sample)
/424/ Aufhebonus Bonus - July 2024 (sample)
/423/ Who Wants the 'Worst Job' in France? ft. Charles Devellennes
/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown
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