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In her work, Moira Weigel closely examines the connection between technology and nationalism. In this regard, Palantir CEO Alex C. Karp's thesis is a surprisingly revealing document.
Show notes
Moira Weigel's website:
http://www.moiraweigel.com/
Moira on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/moiragweigel
Moira Weigel at Harvard:
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0
/"Voices from the Valley. Techies talk about what they do and how they do it./" (2020) by Ben Taroff and Moira Weigel:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675
/"Palantir goes to Frankfurt school/" (2020) by Moira Weigel:
https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)
/"Labour of love. The invention of encounter./" (2018) by Moira Weigel:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133
German translation: “Meetings. A cultural culture":
https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhd
Logic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:
https://logicmag.io/
Data Society
https://datasociety.net/
Literature mentioned in the interview:
/"Agression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur/" (2002) by Alexander C. Karp:
https://d-nb.info/966060652/34 (PDF)
/“Here’s How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled White Nationalism into the Mainstream/” (2017) by Joseph Bernstein:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism (full article online)
/"The jargon of authenticity/" (1973, orig.: 1964) by Theodor W. Adorno:
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticity
German: /"Jargon der Eigentlichkeit – Zur deutschen Ideologie/" (1964): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.html
/"The Californian Ideology/" (1996) by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideology (PDF link)
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/ (full article online)
/"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism/" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff:
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/
/"Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet/" (2020) by Tim Hwang: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651
Additional Notes:
Tech Workers Coalition:
https://techworkerscoalition.org/
Wiki on techno-nationalism (also TechNationalism or Tech-Nationalism):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalism
Wiki on Peter Thiel, co-founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
Wiki on Nick Land, co-founder of CCRU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_Unit
Wiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Other Future Histories episodes on related topics:
Episode 16 with Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook
(German) Episode 22 with Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle et der Gesellschaft der Wearables:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski
(German) Episode 29 with Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel
(German) Episode 30 with Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld
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