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!

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!

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

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

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

excellent piece

"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...

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?

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...

"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...

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.

This book is going to be so important!

@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...

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."

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

new publication alert: a little commentary I wrote about 🔎 clues 🔎 and the detection of AI-generated material is out in American Ethnologist (paywalled at the moment, but hit me up if you can't access it): doi.org/10.1111/amet...

If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org

Listen to this smartie @bentarnoff.com youtu.be/03DlZ9zLaT8

Rechtspopulismus als Revolte der »Abgehängten«? »Oben rechts« (Hg. Heinrich Geiselberger) versammelt Analysen, die eine andere Perspektive eröffnen: Rechte Politik erscheint hier als Projekt politischer Unternehmer – von Berlusconi bis Musk: shrk.vg/ObenRechts-B

Mehr dazu auch im Beitrag von @moiraweigel.bsky.social in OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/oben-re...

Unsere neuen Bücher im März sind da! Einen Überblick über alle Neuerscheinungen findet Ihr wie immer hier: shrk.vg/Neuerscheinu... @tbiebricher.bsky.social @tgrdebate.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Our symposyum 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 will take place on 2-3 February 2026. The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 is now online: www.unive.it/worldalgorithm 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: Grégoire Chamayou, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap.

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

My “Literature and/as AI” students have finished their first assignment, which was to extract and generate an “Encyclopedia of Ancient Robots” from thousands of pages of Homer, Hero of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Liezi, Al Jazari, etc., and I must say they’re cool! code.chuanqisun.com/ancient-robo...

“Every situation…contains a certain openness; people can and do act in ways that reject the necessity of what exists. Asad Haider’s word for this undertaking was politics.” —Ben Tarnoff

There's something very important in this from @alondra.bsky.social about how a government of bosses understands its relationship to AI: as a means to avoid preexisting, even nominal, deference to popular deliberation or expert consultation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Happy birthday or happy Stuart Hall day. You were somply the best www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Today’s news is reminds me of the time I went to buy a cell phone at an electronics mall in Shanghai in 2011 and presented my Yale ID to get a student discount. “Wow, the second best university! 你很厉害!” The salesperson exclaimed. I wonder how she’s doing www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

@moiraweigel.bsky.social is great on this: www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

If you're in the Boston area, come along to the first Capitalism and its Critics workshop today! @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I are hosting the legendary Leopoldina Fortunati to discuss the new translation of The Arcana of Reproduction. At Harvard, Sever Hall 113, at 4pm

Coming March 2026

Zu Karp, Palantir und der Frankfurter Schule empfehle ich den tollen Text von Moira Weigel, die Karps Doktorarbeit sehr genau durchgegangen ist. www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...

I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

just found a post it in my office that reads “NIGHTBITCH is also a novel about work”

I’m honored to have an article in the new issue on “Platform Economies in Digital Asia” edited by Lin Zhang and Elaine Yuan! I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

TIL that this book, which I desperately wanted to teach with but thought had not been translated, is coming out in English in October! Profs teaching tech / labor / digital society take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465353...

I talked to @nytimes.com again, this time about the end of the de minimis exemption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...

See you tonight, Harvard! 6PM! #MoreEverythingForever @harvard.edu @harvardbookstore.bsky.social @maxgladstone.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social