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About the Author

Jorge Majfud (born September 10, 1969, Tacuarembó, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan-American novelist, essayist, and professor whose work spans political philosophy, media criticism, postcolonial theory, and the sociology of power. He is a Professor at Jacksonville University (Jacksonville, Florida), where he teaches Latin American literature and culture.

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Academic Background

Majfud earned a Professional Degree of Architecture from the University of the Republic (Uruguay, 1996) before pursuing graduate studies in the United States. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Georgia, where he also received the Excellence in Research Award in 2006. He has taught at the University of Georgia and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He currently teaches Architecture and Civilizations in the School of Humanities and History and International Studies at the School of Social Sciences at Jacksonville University. He received the Excellence in Scholarly Activities Award twice at JU. He was named one of «The 10 Hispanic Authors of the Moment» by Impacto Latin News.

What He Is Known For

Majfud is one of the most prolific critical voices writing in Spanish about the intersection of politics, culture, and power in Latin America and the United States. His body of work — spanning novels, essays, and political theory — addresses themes including:

• Neo-feudalism and the concentration of power — His analysis of how modern capitalism recreates feudal hierarchies has been cited in academic and encyclopedic references, including the Wikipedia article on Neo-feudalism, where he is listed alongside scholars such as Peter Phillips and Sean McFate.
• Media, propaganda, and the manufacture of opinion — Majfud has written extensively about how mass media and, increasingly, artificial intelligence are used to engineer public consent.
• Colonialism, imperialism, and Latin American identity — Works like La frontera salvaje: 200 años de fanatismo anglosajón en América Latina examine the long history of Anglo-American intervention and ideology in the region.
• Democracy, plutocracy, and the erosion of civic life — His political essays, including the book Plutocracy: Tyrannosaurs of the Anthropocene, argue that formal democracy increasingly masks oligarchic rule.
• The ethics of artificial intelligence — Since at least 2014, Majfud has written critically about AI’s role in shaping opinion and political power, anticipating developments that became mainstream discourse only after the rise of large language models.

Predictions For the 21^st century

In “The Slow Suicide of the West” (2002), “The Theology of Money” (2003), and subsequent essays such as “The Disobedient Society” (2004) and “The Mental Boundaries of Tribalism” (2004), Majfud anticipated a dialectical tension between technological transformation and economic-political power. He argued that the technological explosion would generate new instruments for the democratization and decentralization of knowledge, while simultaneously provoking a reactionary response from established centers of power. This reaction, he suggested, would manifest itself in the resurgence of authoritarianism, militarization, nationalism, and increasingly exclusionary forms of racism across the West.

From this perspective, technological democratization would not produce a linear expansion of political freedom. Rather, it would intensify the contradictions of the existing order by undermining traditional mechanisms of ideological and informational control. The resulting crisis would encourage attempts to reassert social discipline through militarization, authoritarian governance, nationalist mobilization, and the renewed fortification of national borders. At the same time, the decline of American hegemony would accelerate these processes, producing a period of geopolitical instability and ideological reaction.

Majfud’s broader thesis, therefore, posits a transitional sequence: the technological democratization of knowledge would contribute to the crisis of the established Western order; this crisis would generate a reactionary phase characterized by authoritarianism, nationalism, racism, and militarization; and only after the culmination of the Great Crisis of Western capitalism could a renewed process of democratization and political reorganization emerge.

On Neo-Feudalism

All these changes—mostly driven by a financialized economy rather than industrial capitalism—were set to produce a global neofeudalism, followed by regional fragmentation. Majfud discussed this upcoming era in essays, books, and articles during the early 2000s, as well as in interviews such as “What the person who foresaw the concept of ‘neofeudalism’ 12 years ago said,” in 2014.

On Artificial Intelligence

Majfud has been writing critically about artificial intelligence for over a decade — long before the topic entered mainstream cultural conversation.

In a December 2014 essay published in El País (Madrid), he wrote:

«If there are already machines to calculate and translators to translate, soon there will be — if they don’t already exist and are called big media — machines for giving opinions, since opinions are far more predictable than a mathematical operation or the translation of a poem.»

This was written roughly eight years before ChatGPT’s public release in November 2022.

In a 2023 essay, Cyborgs e Inteligencia Artificial, Majfud argued that the central danger of AI is not physical robots but invisible, imperceptible systems:

«The greatest power of artificial intelligence lies in the fact that it is invisible and, even more, imperceptible and, in many cases, incomprehensible.»

He predicted that AI would produce «inorganic beings that interact with humans in a way indistinguishable from interaction between humans» — not through physical robots, but through digital networks and information flows. He described the path from AI-assisted opinion manipulation to fully autonomous AI opinion generation as a transition that would be «imperceptible — like the moment when an exhausted person passes from consciousness to their first dream.»

In April 2026, Majfud published El futuro de la IA, expanding his analysis to predict a four-phase evolution of AI: from single dominant systems to a plurality of competing AI models, then to personalized «customerized» AI clusters, and finally toward centralization in the next century — with each phase reshaping social tribes, political movements, and even religious formations around algorithmic preferences rather than human reason.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Author

Jorge Majfud’s main intellectual contribution lies in his effort to connect literature, history, and social criticism. His work investigates how power structures, historical memories, and cultural narratives influence societies. As an educator, he applies this interdisciplinary approach to teaching, encouraging students to think beyond traditional boundaries between literature, politics, philosophy, and history.

His classroom philosophy is based on the idea that education should not only transmit information but also develop independent thinkers capable of analyzing complex realities.

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The main themes include:

The role of literature in understanding reality

Colonialism and postcolonialism

Neocolonialism and global power structures

Latin American history and identity

United States–Latin American relations

Democracy and the concentration of power

Capitalism and inequality

Globalization and technology

Religion, ethics, and society

Memory and historical narratives

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Does this team have a YouTube channel?

Yes, it is @Think-Lab https://www.youtube.com/@think-lab. However, several other TV, radio, and YouTube channels have featured Majfud in numerous interviews, including RT, CBS, FOX, RTVe, Milenio Mx, Public TV Argentina, among others.

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On concepts like neofeudalism and other major topics?

Jorge Majfud uses the concept of neofeudalism to describe certain tendencies of the contemporary world, including extreme concentration of wealth, the growing influence of private corporations, weakening democratic institutions, and new forms of social and economic dependency.

His analysis connects present-day power structures with historical patterns of hierarchy, privilege, and control.

Is Jorge Majfud consi

• Latin America
• History and memory
• Empire and colonialism
• Democracy
• Political power
• Economics and inequality
• Artificial intelligence and technology
• Literature and culture
• Human rights
• Global conflicts

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