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technofeudalist

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English

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Etymology

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From techno- +‎ feudalist.

Adjective

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technofeudalist (comparative more technofeudalist, superlative most technofeudalist)

  1. Relating to technofeudalism.
    • 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine[1]:
      Zuboff and her followers in the technofeudalist current believe these companies — principally Google, then Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon — have turned the slippery slope of digital surveillance into a hamster wheel, a new self-perpetuating system of exploitation.

Noun

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technofeudalist (plural technofeudalists)

  1. An advocate, practitioner, or theorist of technofeudalism.
    • 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine[2]:
      Technofeudalists have a bad habit of repeating the industry’s self-promotional puffery.