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Techno-Feudalism and the Collusion of Post-Truth: Truth, Knowledge, and Ethics in the Age of Algorithmic Domination
- The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
- Abbr : 기사윤
- 2025, (63), pp.61~97
- DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2025.63.03
- Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
- Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
- Received : November 17, 2025
- Accepted : December 7, 2025
- Published : December 31, 2025
1경희대학교(국제캠퍼스) 비교문화연구소
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ABSTRACT
This study analyzes the “post-truth” phenomenon not merely as an epistemic crisis but as a structural outcome of “techno-feudalism,” a new political-economic order dominated by digital platforms. Big Tech’s control over cloud capital and algorithmic power commodifies truth by privatizing “general intellect” to establish a rent-seeking profit model. In this process, truth degrades into platform-manipulated information products. This structure colludes with mechanisms such as emotional mobilization, echo chambers, and filter bubbles to threaten the public sphere. Consequently, this study proposes a rethinking of truth, liberation, and the common good within Christian social ethics, highlighting the “right of access to truth” as a core ethical mandate. Ultimately, the paper contends that Christian social ethics must evolve into a “critical social ethics” capable of resisting the rentier power structures of techno-feudalism and addressing the structural concealment of truth.
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