Technofeudalism: A Devastating Diagnosis — and a Naïve Politics of Hope
A polemical review of Yanis Varoufakis’ Technofeudalism. His critique of Big Tech rent extraction is devastating—but his political solutions ignore AI-driven labor collapse.
Professional photographer/independent thinker based in Japan
A polemical review of Yanis Varoufakis’ Technofeudalism. His critique of Big Tech rent extraction is devastating—but his political solutions ignore AI-driven labor collapse.
A fresh reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan reveals an accidental prophecy of unaligned superintelligence. This review explores how the novel’s indifferent cosmic forces mirror modern AI alignment fears and why a 1959 satire feels eerily relevant in 2025.