I’ve been reading Muskism. I know I’m annoying with this BUT every evil person isn’t dumb. and every evil person being dumb on X isn’t merely dumb. It’s very much worth your time to parse why Musk uses this rhetoric the way that he does.

Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 2w ago

Mehdi Hasan: "The reason Donald Trump liked being around Elon Musk is that he believes wealth equates to intelligence - The beauty of Musk buying Twitter is we've seen him showing us daily how dumb, credulous, conspiratorial and easily manipulated he can be."

trying to hide out and write on campus I keep getting compliments on my @suhrkamp.de hat

6/30/71: Mike Nichols' brilliant Carnal Knowledge (W Jules Feiffer) w/Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret More: Us: midcenturycinema.org/2016/11/06/n... @moiraweigel.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/carnal-knowl...

just sent to me by @quinnslobodian.com from ChatGPT when it’s right it’s

Upcoming LaborTech Speaker Series @ June 4, 10am ET (US) Lindsey Cameron and Moira Weigel, “Nothing New Under the Sun: The Journey of Sponsored Entrepreneurship From Amway to Uber” Please RSVP to Angelica angelica.martinez.ochoa@gmail.com

Ambitious tech founders, VCs, and investors are bypassing Silicon Valley to pay up to $9,000 for firsthand access to China’s hyper-efficient manufacturing and AI ecosystems https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/?utm_campaign=row-social

China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism

Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.

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Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

In der @woz.ch bespricht heute auch @raulzelik.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2620/sachbuc...

Sachbuch: Polarisierung nach Gutsherrenart

Ein neues Buch nimmt das rechtspopulistische Unternehmertum ins Visier – und hinterfragt gängige Deutungen der autoritären Wende.

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Ein wichtiges Buch…Francis Dupuis-Déri gibt nicht nur Hélène Rytmann (Legotien) ihre Geschichte zurück, sondern legt auch offen, wie Louis Althusser, Weggefährten und sogar Teile der feministischen Theorie den Mord an einer Frau umdeuteten.

#Philosophy #NationalDefence #AI #Technology #Fascism #PoliticalPhilosophy @moiraweigel.bsky.social @anthbrtn.com @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social Check out Moira Weigel's essay here boundary2.org/2020/07/moir... and Anthony Burton's book meson.press/books/algori... and hope to see you on Tuesday!

Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School

Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...

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I had such a great time digging into “Muskism” with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com. It really gives us a lot to ponder about the system we’re living in and how central Elon Musk has been to helping define it for his own benefit. Highly recommend grabbing a copy of the book!

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 3mo ago

Is Muskism set to define the 21st century, in much the same way as Fordism did through the 20th century? This week @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com join @parismarx.com to discuss the system Elon Musk has built and the threats it poses for society. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/327_...

Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻

/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is an interesting review (posting it all in the thread). Not sure I'm motivated to read the whole book

this bill authorizes the NSF to provide grants for incorporating "AI literacy" into K-12 education. So infuriating to allocate federal grants to create a system for which profits funnel directly back to Big Tech. Further infuriating that this is proposed while the NSF is under-funded & under attack

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.

Please share this widely: there are various postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in political theory, philosophy, and the social sciences at Normative Orders in Frankfurt!

Normative Orders@normativeorders.bsky.social · 6mo ago

‼️Call for Applications‼️ 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships Political Theory / Political Philosophy Goethe University Frankfurt “Justitia Center for Advanced Studies” 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships Philosophy / Social Sciences Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme

excellent piece

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3mo ago

The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

"Staat und Techunternehmen sollen über kurz oder lang zu einer Einheit verschmelzen.Als »Muskismus« haben der Historiker Quinn Slobodian und der Tech-Autor Ben Tarnoff diese Konstellation in ihrem vor Kurzem erschienenen gleichnamigen Buch bezeichnet." www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

(S+) Meinung: Die Techmogule setzen auf Regime-Change – Meinung

US-Techkonzerne folgen nicht einfach Donald Trump: Sie wollen selbst Staaten umbauen. Palantir-Chef Alex Karp hat nun seine autoritäre Vision skizziert. Das kann für Deutschland nur eine Konsequenz ha...

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Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...

conforming to the genre is *more central* to the performance than *answering the specific question,* which may diverge from the expected genre. the genre of "radiologist analyzing an x-ray" does not usually contain "there is no available file to analyze" thus that answer is not typically available.

Today, @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com consider whether "Muskism" could serve as a possible successor to post-Fordism. How should we understand Muskism's distinctive regime of accumulation, and what kind of social contract does it propose to stabilize its disruptive effects?

Muskism as Fordism

Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?

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On the occasion of Muskism's pub day, @quinnslobodian.com and I look at the upcoming SpaceX IPO and discuss possible ways it might advance Musk's ideological project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk Is Taking the X Playbook to Starlink

The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.

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"The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, it has taken on a new importance..." @moiraweigel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...

Hating Theory Today

Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

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An excerpt from the part of our book where we mustered all of our self-control and … took the category of “woke mind virus“ seriously. Turns out it’s kind of revealing about how Musk and his brethren in the Silicon Valley leadership class see politics.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com investigate how (and when) Elon Musk took his hard turn to the right.

This book is going to be so important!

Brian Callaci@briancallaci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Crassly dipping my toe onto this platform with self-promotion: My book, Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy now has a beautiful cover, and a release date: April 20th. So you'll have something to enjoy with your 4/20 Taco Bell order! bookshop.org/p/books/chai...

@moiraweigel.bsky.social wrote one of the most enlightening (and earliest) pieces on Alex Karp's fashy PhD. She now has written this luminous piece that gives a persuasive materialist account of the right wing assault on theory. Truly brilliant stuff. direct.mit.edu/octo/article...

Hating Theory Today

Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

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How did Elon Musk go from Silicon Valley nerd worried about climate change to chainsaw-wielding billionaire eviscerating government agencies? On Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's incisive new book, "Muskism: A Guide For the Perplexed."

How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works

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New Englanders! @quinnslobodian.com and I have a couple of events coming up next week for our new book Muskism. Wed, April 22, 7pm, at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, with @jasonbjackson.bsky.social Thurs, April 23, 7pm, at Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, with @madisoncondon.bsky.social

Grateful for Jennifer Szalai's thoughtful read of Muskism in today's NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

Ein neuer Sammelband erkundet die historischen Lebenswelten der radikalen Rechten in der Bundesrepublik. Ab jetzt im Open Access als kostenloser Download verfügbar: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536043...

“Labor Tech Research Network invites submissions for our fifth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. The deadline is June 1.” Via @labortechresearchnetwork.org labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards