Early on this year, ICPC colleagues Mauro Santaniello & Chiara Spiniello published their essay reviewing the growing literature on techno-feudalism, titled “For a critique of techno-feudalism”. In it they argue that by

1. situating the notion within the broader transfor-mations of the digital sphere;
2. reconceptualising the relationship between the state and digital corporations; and
3. examining the entanglement of power and knowledge that structures the techno-feudal configuration,

we may arive at a much more critical appraisal of the concept that highlights its limitations and heuristic potential.

Santaniello, M., & Spiniello, C. (2026). For a Critique of Techno-Feudalism. New Authoritarianisms and Democracies: Law, Institutions, Society (NAD-DIS) , 8 (1), 22–37. https://doi.org/10.54103/2612-6672/30754