As a gap between billionaires and everybody else swells, a bipartisan project decades in the making, Jodi Dean, author and professor, considers if we are living through a change in the form of ...
Today a debate is raging over the question of whether we now have a technofeudal economy of rentierism, pervasive anti-competitive practices, and stagnation or a dynamic and brutally competitive ...
Capital's Grave: Neo Feudalism and the New Class Struggle by Jodi Dean. Published by Verso. A common feature of contemporary capitalism is the shift of many countries in the advanced capitalist world ...
Pathogens and pandemics have played a huge part in shaping human history right up to COVID-19 — but their exact effects remain highly debatable. Microorganisms have been key actors in human history.
The transition from feudalism to capitalism is often viewed as the result of a gradual and rising progress of technology, urbanisation, science and trade - inevitable because humans have always ...
A middle aged photo of Albert Einstein. Anniversary republishing of Einstein’s article. A few years before the rabid offensive of the far right leaning Joe McCarthy era, there began a campaign to the ...
It is natural to think that the progress of science, technology, and the democratic practices of secular nation-states would put an end to primitive cultures characterized by fear, violence, feudalism ...
The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed fascism. Polarized politics and ...
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, by Joel Kotkin, (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), 224 pages. Few policy items have more ominously heralded the ongoing realignment ...