Neofeudalism
Added 2022-05-19 01:07:56 +0000 UTCWe talk about the concept of neofeudalism and decide whether it makes sense or not.
Articles mentioned:
CRITIQUE OF TECHNO-FEUDAL REASON (By Evgeny Morozov)
Same As It Ever Was? (By Jodi Dean)
Comments
exactly right. capitalists have been threatening to end work via replacement by robots or machines since the 50s at least. Never happens.
William Mckay
2022-05-20 13:59:08 +0000 UTCThanks for this insightful episode, I think it's a good follow-up to the discussion of the Great Reset and the "own nothing and be happy" meme that's trotted out all the time I think another element at play here that undermines the neofeudalism argument is the overestimation of the current and near-term capacity for technology to replace essential functions through automation, etc or become autonomous. So similar to the pitfalls of COVID and climate change analysis, the neofeudalists fail to examine the tech industries marketing fluff about robots being right around the corner
Brian J
2022-05-20 13:18:10 +0000 UTC"in the social sciences you can create a whole micro-field of study based on a few concepts that don't really make sense" i just completed my undergrad from a very heavily postmodernized anthropology department and i can confirm this
rei
2022-05-19 13:31:26 +0000 UTC
