Organizing Identities: The Power of Technofeudalism in a Precarious World – Milei, Youth Precarity, and Post-partisan (“Anti-Everything”) Identities in Contemporary Argentina

Authors

Valeria Brusco, National University of CórdobaFollow

Keywords

Polarization, Social Media, Argentina, Technofeudalism

Document Type

Essay

Abstract

This article explains why an anti-state radical-right agenda can become politically effective in contemporary Argentina by shifting the focus from ideology to the organization of identities. Drawing on survey evidence (ENCResPA, 7,130 online cases collected in 2022) and a corpus of anonymized semi-structured interviews with young people (2024–2025), I argue that Milei’s appeal is best understood as a form of negative politicization: a post-partisan stance built around rejection of mediation (parties, unions, experts, public institutions) and condensed moral narratives (“caste,” “cuts,” “freedom”). I identify an “Anti-Everything/Anti-Todo” identity as an electorally available and affectively intense orientation that travels efficiently in platform environments, where algorithmic ranking and recommendation structures attention through visibility and repetition, reinforces certainty, and compresses shared reality into segmented moral worlds. Linking comparative work on inequality and democratic erosion with Azmanova’s framework on precarity, I show how insecurity and time scarcity shorten horizons of expectation and make “shock” politics feel plausible. Finally, I propose organization—understood as the power to structure visibility, credibility, incentives, and futures—as the superstructure of contemporary domination. In this frame, technofeudalism and intellectual monopoly (including Rikap’s sovereignty-oriented agenda) point to a democratic response that is institutional rather than nostalgic: rebuilding conditions of life and conditions of truth through anti-precarity policies and public digital infrastructures.

Recommended Citation

Brusco, Valeria (2025) "Organizing Identities: The Power of Technofeudalism in a Precarious World – Milei, Youth Precarity, and Post-partisan (“Anti-Everything”) Identities in Contemporary Argentina," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 4: Iss. 3, Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2765-8414.1150
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol4/iss3/3