How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism Paperback by Cédric Durand

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2025-10-21)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781804294390
• Item Weight: 204.12 grams
• Dimensions: 7.78 x 5.06 x 0.62 cm

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.

About the Author

Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d'économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital. How Finance Appropriates Our Future. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review.