Because Varoufakis, Durand, and Dean’s 'technofeudalism' thesis is now debated in mainstream policy venues (e.g., American Affairs), regulators and activists reframe Big Tech governance as breaking feudal rents via utility-style rules and data commons. This frame recasts inequality and surveillance as lord–vassal relations rather than market competition.
— It shifts the ideological baseline for antitrust, data ownership, and platform regulation by portraying digital power as extra-capitalist domination, broadening coalitions for non-market interventions.
Alex Hochuli
2025.08.20
100% relevant
This article surveys and critiques the technofeudalism literature and presents it as a live paradigm contest over how to understand Big Tech’s political economy.
Matt Stoller
2025.08.20
78% relevant
Framing Big Tech as 'tyrants of the algorithm' in American Affairs aligns with the technofeudal lens that recasts platform dominance as extra‑market power requiring utility‑style constraints; the essay extends that legitimacy in mainstream policy venues.
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