How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism : The Making of the Digital Economy

Author: Durand, Cedric

Economic theory & philosophy

Published on 21 October 2025 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

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.