3: Neofeudalism and Epistemology

Neofeudalism turns its back on epistemology. It pulls an ‘aristerometro’ on understanding the commercial epistemologies produced by neoliberal capitalism to assert that the fabric of big-tech monopolies doesn’t need to be touched upon, let alone critiqued, in order to comprehend the radical times that we are going through. The idea is that the method is rigorous in neofeudalist discourse; therefore, nitty-gritty research on how technocapitalism really works, even at a design and engineering level, is not needed. Discussions of deduction, theory, or epistemic foundations are dismissed or considered outdated relics, suitable only for those unaware that the change has already occurred: neofeudalism is already here. As we underlined in the previous chapter, economics reign, without any talk about their episteme. This rejection is intentional: it implies that the method is so embedded in approaches and, therefore, traditional epistemological scrutiny is unnecessary. It is a way of implying that enquiry has dialectics, or x at least is scientific, in Marxist terms.