We've opened the call for papers for this year's edition of our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna, under the subject "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/
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Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship"
https://futurism.com/billionaires-corporate-dictatorship
"Instead of democracy, we will have basically tech feudalism — fiefdoms run by tech corporations. They're pretty explicit about this point.“
A consortium of the world's most powerful moguls are plotting to rule the world by oligopoly, according to tech industry analyst Gil Duran.
I'm reading Yanis Varoufakis' book "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" and I'm really enjoying it. Haven't finished it yet, but I already find it very insightful.
This is well beyond Trump.
This is a kitchen sink wet dream of U.S. oligarchs who have been scheming for its passage for decades. It's a transformation of American society, democracy, economy, etc., and not for the better.
Then they're planning on letting the #ChristoFascist #Dominionists play the role of Kapo in the new #TechnoFeudalism
So...fun times. What are you doing to prepare?
#Resilience is an act of #Resistance
You don’t have agree with everything Yanis Varoufakis says or thinks. I for example, don’t agree with his thinking of the Russo-Ukrainian war and European defence.
But he’s an economist, and on that front his warnings should be taken very seriously.
Judging the current US regime as clueless as it’s head buffoons — Trump, Hegseth & Vance — is a grave mistake. The financial team behind him has a plan, and they know what they’re doing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hMjLaTiY0vA
#economy #usa #technofeudalism
"Yanis Varoufakis: "Something SERIOUS Is About To Hit America..."
... a Greek economist, author, and former finance minister of Greece, known for his outspoken critiques of austerity and neoliberal economic policies. A prominent voice in European economic debates, he advocates for democratic reform of international financial institution...
#TechnoFeudalism #ClimateEmergency
#China #US #Imperialism #Israel #Gaza #Capitalism #Colonialism #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjLaTiY0vA&ab_channel=EastAsiaRise
"Economist Yanis Varoufakis has warned that the West is drifting towards so-called “technofeudalism”, a system where big tech firms extract digital rents, enclose ecosystems and centralise value. Users become serfs within closed platforms, while companies prioritise shareholders over societal value.
In contrast, I believe China is charting an alternative which I call “technomeritism”. This builds on the principles of permissioned innovation but pushes beyond regulatory control to a broader value system, where technological success is judged not by valuation, but by whether it earns its place in society. It is earned through alignment with public goals, civic legitimacy and national strategy. Success is not concentrated but distributed across communities, the economy and wider ecosystems.
This model matters more than ever as the world faces not just a trust deficit, but a coordination deficit. Technologies like AI, quantum computing and semiconductors can no longer scale in isolation. They require systems that bind together state capacity, industry leadership and a social mandate.
China’s embrace of open source in this context, is an example of technomeritism in action. By making core technologies like large language models publicly accessible, companies such as DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding (which owns the South China Morning Post) are lowering barriers, encouraging collaboration and reinforcing the idea that innovation earns legitimacy through shared value, not private control.
As Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei recently put it, an open-source environment will benefit the country’s long-term future."
South China Morning Post · Opinion | China offers an alternative to Western ‘technofeudalism’China’s answer to the Western model focuses on planning, an open source approach and whether the new technology earns its place in society.
Stones of DavidChina's model is a much better alternative to US techno-feudalism.
#china #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#SettlerColonialism
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Scambi Festival is back!
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Versione in italiano qui sopra 
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La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
20–24 August 2025
Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:
Social and Environmental Justice
Degrowth and local/global economy
Political Technology and resistance to Technofeudalism–with @dario from @fsfe, @wikimediaitalia, and many others)
Education and learning
The Program
• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.
If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, 
open until July 20! 
We’re looking forward to meet you!
(boosts are welcome)
scambi.orgScambi 2025 Call for Participation
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POLITICS GIRL ON TECHNO FEUDALISM
https://bsky.app/profile/politicsgirl.bsky.social/post/3ls5qyaztlc2y
Bluesky Social · PoliticsGirl (@politicsgirl.bsky.social)If you’re not outraged by this, you really should be.
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@w7voa Why? That's what the technofascists want.
www.bbc.comGoogle turns to nuclear to power AI data centresThe tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”. It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. #democracy #autocracy #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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#NoAI Elena Rossini (@_elena, @elena) has produced a great, great 4-minute video explaining the Fediverse to those not familiar with it and providing very good reasons why to switch from commercial platforms to federated social media. Let’s all spread the word and get it out to friends, family, coworkers, basically anyone who is still stuck with the mega corps (by e-mail or whatever means seem usable):
Elena Rossini · 📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
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Excellent conversation with Cory Doctrow in conversation with Micah Loewinger
@pluralistic pulls the curtain back on how big tech continues to squeeze both its customers and suppliers for every last possible red cent
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"We've built a system that rewards exploitation and punishes empathy, and then act surprised when the world turns cruel,"
There's so much in this new talk - strongly recommended!
"Techno Feudalism and the New Class War"
yewtu.be/watch?v=xKdkrr98ZIo
(youtu.be/xKdkrr98ZIo)
#TheFunctionalMelancholic #TechnoFeudalism #ClassWar #Podcast #Videocast
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”. It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. #democracy #autocracy #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism
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Somehow I always managed to find the books from Verso Books whenever I'm in a bookstore
My partner and I went to the Buffalo History Museum and afterward stopped at a cafe and bookstore where I got this
‘Plain English’ with Derek Thompson
‘Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?’
This podcast explains quite brilliantly how and why new artists today have such a hard time finding an audience.
Spencer Kornhaber and host Derek Thompson talk about the, what Derek calls, ‘Four Horsemen of the Cultural Apocalypse’ — Stagnation, Cynicism, Isolation, and Attention Rot.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4476861?episode=37065668047
(Downside: you’ll have to get through an annoying ad right in the beginning; you might want to skip the first 44 seconds.)
Spencer Kornhaber’s essay for The Atlantic that sparked parts of the conversation:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/american-pop-culture-decline/682578/
Podcastindex.orgPlain English with Derek Thompson | Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever? | Podcastindex.orgIn music, billion-dollar investments in old catalogues are squeezing out new music. In film, Hollywood has become addicted to the regurgitation of familiar IP. In visual art, critics bemoan the straitjacket of political correctness. On TV, as Derek told Bill Simmons, we're in a Gilded Age of television, where every prestigious show looks absolutely amazing—but that gilded veneer often covers up for dull storytelling. What do these trends all have in common? The slow decline of modern media. This month, The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber published a blockbuster essay, "Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Cu...
In Conversation With Yanis Varoufakis
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Yanis Varoufakis, Former Finance Minister, Greece discusses fiscal policy and political change in Europe with Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the 2025 Qatar Economic Forum, Powered by Bloomberg.