new middle ages

• Umberto Eco’s essays “Living in the New Middle Ages” and “Dreaming of the Middle Ages” … decline of Westphalian sovereignty … replaced by global political system similar to Middle Ages without defined country borders … sovereignty, loyalty, devotion deviate from the country to diverse structures self-governance, unions, employers, tech monopolies … (church, lords, factories in Middle Ages) …
• Technofeudalism Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (2023), Yanis Varoufakis
• Gabriel Almond, David Easton call state - special entity and stage for global rivalry … new world order is dictated by international corporations, organizations, global information network
• New Middle Ages threatens return of the old problems, Westphalian system was made to solve such as religious (or values) wars … fear of war and chaos raises the demand for leadership that defends “sovereignty” as “the right to dominate”

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