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All of the recorded video for our Virtual Events Series from 2020-present (City Lights LIVE) ends up here.
Go to citylights.com for more.
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Yannis Varoufakis
City Lights and Melville House present
Yannis Varoufakis in conversation with Peter Maravelis
discussing
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
by Yannis Varoufakis
published by Melville House
purchase the book here:
citylights.com/topographies/technofeudalism/
Welcome to technofeudalism . . .
Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet.
Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe-and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China.
Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. His books include "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?", "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy," "Adults in the Room," and "Foundations of Economics."
Praise for Technofeudalism
“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read … It’s hard to read this book and deny its power … illuminating.” - The Washington Post
“Engaging prose. Varoufakis’s talent for explaining economic developments in accessible language shines throughout…convincing and enlightening. We all should and we can be grateful to have a comrade like [Varoufakis].” -Jacobin
“Few finance ministers have such a talent for economics as Yanis Varoufakis.” - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist
“An outstanding economist and political analyst.” - Noam Chomsky
““What if capitalism died and no one noticed - not even the capitalists? Digital platforms usurped capitalism and installed something far worse. This book is an urgent demand to seize the means of computation.” - Cory Doctorow
“The Thucydides of our time.” - Jeffrey Sachs
“An important new book that describes what is happening in terms of an epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift … In Varoufakis’s telling, this isn’t just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power.” - Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer (London)
Arresting … an ambitious thinker and a lively writer … Varoufakis is right that we are in thrall to digital platforms, who hold our data hostage and prevent us from switching to “a competing cloud fief” ― The Times (London)
This event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.
Yannis Varoufakis in conversation with Peter Maravelis
discussing
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
by Yannis Varoufakis
published by Melville House
purchase the book here:
citylights.com/topographies/technofeudalism/
Welcome to technofeudalism . . .
Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet.
Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe-and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China.
Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. His books include "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?", "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy," "Adults in the Room," and "Foundations of Economics."
Praise for Technofeudalism
“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read … It’s hard to read this book and deny its power … illuminating.” - The Washington Post
“Engaging prose. Varoufakis’s talent for explaining economic developments in accessible language shines throughout…convincing and enlightening. We all should and we can be grateful to have a comrade like [Varoufakis].” -Jacobin
“Few finance ministers have such a talent for economics as Yanis Varoufakis.” - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist
“An outstanding economist and political analyst.” - Noam Chomsky
““What if capitalism died and no one noticed - not even the capitalists? Digital platforms usurped capitalism and installed something far worse. This book is an urgent demand to seize the means of computation.” - Cory Doctorow
“The Thucydides of our time.” - Jeffrey Sachs
“An important new book that describes what is happening in terms of an epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift … In Varoufakis’s telling, this isn’t just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power.” - Carole Cadwalladr, The Observer (London)
Arresting … an ambitious thinker and a lively writer … Varoufakis is right that we are in thrall to digital platforms, who hold our data hostage and prevent us from switching to “a competing cloud fief” ― The Times (London)
This event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.
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Godspeed and save Yanis Varofakis a true champion of the people
Capitalism is feudalism, ownership of people and pure unscrupulous slavery, terminology has changed, nothing else, kings are now "entrepreneurs" and slaves "employees", actually literal cattle but cattle has been freed by technology while humans continue to produce abundance with their own hands for the minimum of moldy straw for food.
typical socialist, very good identifying the problem (loved the video until 25:35), then he gets to solving it, and as soon as he opens his mouth pure bullcrap comes out. Uber co-op lmao
So, you agree with the analysis. What is your solution - stoicism?
I'm reading this book at the moment, thoroughly recommend it (bought from a bookstore, not Amazon! :) Yannis gives a very clear explanation of what can be a tricky concept. Thank you.
Great talk. Also love the fact that William Gaddis' cynical masterwork J.R. is seen on the shelf behind hte host.
Capitalism is dead. Neo liberalism ate it from the 1950'$
Speak clear. It is bankers who is taking over. It is sad you still speak in toungue. Spreading confution as usual.
This book as so good ! I almost want a part II !
Omg I love Amber tamblyn from. Koan of aracdia Didn't know she was in house lol Gonna watch house Martha now!
I'm reading JCO's "Little Bird of Heaven" at the moment... It's absolutely WONDERFUL!
Thank you for posting this
Thank you for having me!
In the intervew with Robert Scherer this year, Ron mentioned the movie 'Exodus' when discussing the Israeli war on Gaza. He mentioned the music from it and didn't get the names of the piano players quite right. They were Ferrante and Teicher, playing the theme song. While the movie was a clever piece of propaganda foisted on the American people to elicit sympathy for the young Israeli state, the theme song was really lovely.
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Fantastic.Thank you
Years after house is done masters is still cute as ever lol
…., no words…. ❤❤❤❤❤ really beautiful
'promo sm'
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Artistic appreciation doesnt live by empirical truth! Depreciation of standard repetitive forms is progress snobbish or whatever thats how it is, buks fizz or elgar are not equal😅
This is wonderful! Im so glad I got to hear Joseph read and talk about his work, 4 months later! Thank you!
Judith Butler is a symptom of the intellectual bankruptcy of the American academy.
nah, that's u bruh
So glad Queer Theory is being rejected across society big time. QT needs to be booted out of the university and kicked back into the gutter where it belongs. Judith Butler is an evil Marxist who has done tremendous damage to Western Civilization.
ikr? it's so lame when folks can live how they want.
Thank you all.
After the Cass Review none of what Butler talks about makes any sense. Gender confused people are simply suffering some some mental health. Butler's mumbo jumbo just complicate something that is fairly simple. Gender is the Cognitive Structure that represents Biological Sex. Regarding the issue about women's spaces, Butler complicates it with more mumbo jumbo when the issue is simple: women don't want men in their spaces. The "other group" are men! Why is butler protecting men? This lady is confused. Gender Ideology is dead and Butler is being irresponsible by doubling down on an ideology that looks more like a cult than science.
Erasing material differences of trans women and biological women is equality...
She thinks that by saying whatever what think he she is will enact regognition of difference and radical equality? In capitalism? It sounds. Good luck with that crippled hegelian wishfull thinking.
Trying to " imagine radical equality" in postmodernism is ridiculous. Her antimaterialism is dangerous and people on the left are afraid of this.
As if its not authoritarian to force people to accept there are no two sexes and intersex conditions are "destabilization".if youre not with butler you are a neofascist.
no, if you use a boogeyman to explain why we need to take people's rights away... then you're a neofascist. you don't have to like trans people in order to not strip them of rights and protections that are granted other people groups.
La Vie En Rose
Great interview! You’re such an inspiration !
A wonderful Romanian writer I'm proud to be contemporary with😊, thank you!
Jenny Wades right about lovemaking.
My Dark Places is a tragic facinating book about the murder of his mother and the effect it had on him, and also with a help of a Detective he tries to find out the murderer.
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i wish mr hirschman had had the opportunity to come to canada and teach or read some poetry and maybe all of us could of had some practice in describing free speech versus stunts from pretenders. hirschman was our veteran defender, real rights, real words.... and the prize is for all the pickles in the barrel. from saskatchewan we miss you mr hirschman. we need more sturdy voices and more san fransico fog, a shout out from nasty stairs poetry
I do wish someone would get through to him that conspiracy theories aren’t facts, no matter how much they tacitly flatter the person who needs them. He keeps on framing it that masses of people want to read him and it’s only a cabal of moustache twirling bell-ends in London stopping him. Not, say, because people want to spend their hard earned cash on reading someone else. He’s being a tad snobbish about genre fiction too, which I would have thought he was above. Also: how do you empirically ‘prove’ one book is greater aesthetically than another? Whether you like Raymond Chandler or Dashiel Hammet or not, to a lot of people they’re obviously the better writers, not Kafka. Are they ‘stupid’…? And how, for that matter, does an open atheist also manage to sing the praises of a place like TEXAS so often and ignore how they regard unbelief there? People like Hemingway more than Sherwood Anderson because his life was more interesting.
Very nice to hear Kelman on something he likes. The way he talks about Black Sparrow Press was the way I felt about Not, Not While the Giro etc.
didn't agree with his politics, agreed with his love for people, how poor we are without his voice, i save his books, and look for more, keep on shining san francisco, for the beats then and now, poets in us all. send more city lights publications to canada, we've never needed hirschman and ferlinghetti more than now! thank you and mr hirschman!
😂great show boss
Ferlinghetti died at 102
Do you have a job? Writing, video editing, or other jobs.
After this, listen to "An Ontology of Betrayal" - you too, Adam, if you're reading this! 44:07
Who did the Ramaytush Ohlone steal the land know known as the San Francisco Bay area from, I wonder? 😉
The bike zine Mudflap was done by Greta Snider.
Thanks for all your work Jerry
Thank you for posting this! Thank you, Peter and Chris.
Jah & Jahes love. This was an outstanding presentation and discussion with Dr. Marlene Daut about her most recently published manuscript or book about one of my favorite subjects, the legacy of #1804. I am so grateful to her for the great works and on this wonderful day, as we celebrate the 132nd birthday of the great Zora Neale Hurston, I am happy that I got to spend the hour watching this recording. I hope and pray that I can attend a live presentation with her someday soon. Blessed love.#1804#Ayiti#ToutMounseMoun#AbolishCPS#AbolishPoverty#DefundFosterCare#ProChoice#RawVeganforLife#HR40NOW!#220YearsFREE!
Excellent !!!👏👏👏