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What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega

What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega

Update: 2025-07-04
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Jem is joined by medieval historian, comrade and friend of the show Eleanor Janega, to talk about what exactly is ‘feudal’ about ‘techno-feudalism’ or ‘neo-feudalism’. Several prominent theorists and commentators have recently claimed that somehow, we’ve left the age of capitalism behind and entered a new epoch of…some kind of ‘feudalism’. But what even is ‘feudalism’? What do these guys even mean by ‘capitalism’? And are they right about any of it?

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What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega

What’s Feudal About ‘Technofeudalism’? With Eleanor Janega

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