Technocapitalism, not techno-feudalism
platforms accumulation and dependency in the Global South
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https://doi.org/10.54786/revistaeptic.v28i1.23861Abstract
This article questions the concept of techno-feudalism and proposes peripheral technocapitalism as an analytical alternative. Drawing on a Marxist perspective articulated with Latin American Political Economy of Communication, it argues that digital capitalism reconfigures rather than transcends capitalist logic. Advancing beyond Morozov (2022; 2023) and Yan (2024), the article integrates the institutional materiality of platforms, the constitutive role of attention and disinformation in digital valorization, and the specific forms of infrastructural dependency, regulatory asymmetry, and data colonialism shaping the Global South's insertion into technocapitalism.
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