Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism

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Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new ‘digital feudalism’, we find precarious employment via digital platforms, we buy goods and services in perpetuity through subscriptions, and we pay for it all with debt.

Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.

Dr. David Arditi is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He serves as director of the Center for Theory. Arditi is the author of 6 books ranging from digital technology to the music industry. He is also the editor of Fast Capitalism. 

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David Arditi (University of Texas at Arlington)