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How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism

The Making of the Digital Economy

Author Cédric Durand
Translated by David Broder
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On sale Oct 21, 2025 | 9781804294390
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The promise of the 'new economy' gone, we have regressed into the age of techno-feudalism

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism tears apart the Silicon Valley consensus to reveal the new economic order, in which capital has abandoned production to focus on predation.
Preface to the English-Language Edition

Introduction

1. The Poverty of the Californian Ideology
2. On Digital Domination
3. The Rentier Class of the Intangible World
4. The ‘Techno-Feudal’ Hypothesis

Conclusion: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Socialisation

Appendix I
Appendix II
Acknowledgements
Index

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The promise of the 'new economy' gone, we have regressed into the age of techno-feudalism

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism tears apart the Silicon Valley consensus to reveal the new economic order, in which capital has abandoned production to focus on predation.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English-Language Edition

Introduction

1. The Poverty of the Californian Ideology
2. On Digital Domination
3. The Rentier Class of the Intangible World
4. The ‘Techno-Feudal’ Hypothesis

Conclusion: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Socialisation

Appendix I
Appendix II
Acknowledgements
Index

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