A number of people have been making this argument that maybe what we are looking at is a system that's stagnating. They say the powerful are using all sorts of extra economic means to make money without investing anything new in capitalism. But i think the underlying a conviction. It's that we are moving backwards, an instead of the ino dynamic, where looking at just the rule of the powerful,. And increasing ly this techniques are digital. So they involve, as 've already alluded to, data and platforms and services.
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
Evgeny's website: evgenymorozov.com
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