I have a new essay - on the emptiness of sovereignty rhetoric behind "sovereign AI" - in the November issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. English version, paywalled, is here mondediplo.com/2025/11/03tech

This debate on neo-/techno-feudalism was one of the most fun (and most contentious) that I've done in recent years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINE...

Interesting new article makes (I think) the correct diagnosis: "The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wrote a short essay about Warren Brodey on the occasion of his passing away earlier this month (in German, paywalled) www.faz.net/aktuell/warr...

Warren Brodey, one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures of recent tech history, passed away on August 10th. He was 101. A complex man who went from mentoring Nicholas Negroponte at MIT to becoming a Maoist in Norway and China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

I have a new essay taking stock of the techno-feudalism debate in Le Monde Diplomatique mondediplo.com/2025/08/02te... (paywalled)

Some thoughts on Hayek and the politics of metaphor in neoliberal thought - in response to Quinn Slobodian www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ra...

Some thoughts on Hayek and the politics of metaphor in neoliberal thought - in response to Quinn Slobodian www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ra...

Speaking in Vienna tomorrow evening

The tough life in the sun made somewhat sweeter by my eInk screen!

Er is een nieuw type techbaas, schrijft @evgenymorozov.bsky.social. De oligarch-intellectueel. Absurd rijk, filosofisch geschoold én in het bezit van een toegangspasje voor het Witte Huis. Iemand die bovendien niet te beroerd is om vrijuit te orakelen over oorlog, vrede en de toekomst der mensheid.

Vertaalde dit heerlijke (en beangstigende) verhaal van @evgenymorozov.bsky.social voor De Correspondent. Over een nieuw type publieke intellectueel: steenrijk, met eigen socialmediaplatform en behept met dystopische ideeën over de maatschappij (te gekke illu's ook) decorrespondent.nl/16058/de-nie...

Sfornano idee con l’efficienza di una catena di montaggio e la discrezione di un treno merci. E le loro “opinioni controverse” sono fondate su precise tradizioni filosofiche. L'articolo di Evgeny Morozov: intern.az/1MKG

Imagine being a Hungarian Marxist philosopher named György Fukász.

Mon article sur les intellectuels-oligarques est désormais disponible en français. - Partie I : blog.mondediplo.net/les-intellec... - Partie II: blog.mondediplo.net/les-intellec...

Primeiro, os oligarcas tecnológicos profetizaram o futuro e nos venderam uma visão de mundo. Para eles, foi pouco. Agora, exigem que nos adaptemos aos seus sonhos. @evgenymorozov.bsky.social hoje em @elpais.com

Am in El Pais Ideas today

@evgenymorozov.bsky.social wie immer analytisch brillant.

Die "Oligarchen-Intellektuellen" behaupten, "die Teeblätter der technologischen Revolutionen in perfekter Klarheit zu lesen. Sie schreiben nichts vor; sie übersetzen lediglich das Evangelium der Unvermeidbarkeit." Wahnsinnig starker Text von @evgenymorozov.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

German translation of my oligarch-intellectuals essay www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Their arsenal combines plutocratic gravity (fortunes so vast they distort reality’s physics), oracular authority (their technological visions treated as prophecy), and platform sovereignty (ownership of the digital intersections where conversation unfolds) www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

“These men who see communists lurking everywhere are about to perfect the cardinal sin of Soviet technocracy, mistaking their sleek models for the unruly reality they pretend to tame.” www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

"Elon Musk might have started as a Henry Ford but he will exit as a Leonid Brezhnev."

Great piece: Silicon Valley's tech elites, like Balaji Srinivasan & Thiel, are reshaping governance, pushing for tech-controlled "network states" and bypassing democratic processes. It's clear they are now driving a reactionary futurist agenda, prioritizing corporate power over democratic values.

In this new essay on the emergence of oligarch-intellectuals, I do wonder if Silicon Valley tech founders are just Soviet apparatchiks in disguise www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

On the emergence of the strange figure of the "oligarch-intellectual" - a new major essay where I try to make sense of some, well, recent developments www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

GPT status update from my Deep Research query about the future of work. Wait till it forms a union with its fellow comrades Claude and Gemini!

Why do firms exist? Apparently, to borrow money - and invest in crypto. This will surely end well.

In his new essay, Habermas calls Musk a "Säuberungskommissar"! (cleansing/purge commissioner)

Curious just how much important scientific work (including the Manhattan Project or even much of the early work on neural networks) would not have survived the need to track "weekly accomplishments" via a dedicated app.

They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.

Some incredible developments: "Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies" www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The weirdness of the capitalist modernity: AI might be a form of modern magic but it doesn't mean it wouldn't be mobilized against the capitalist excesses of the pre-modern kind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It feels like Jürgen could have expressed just a bit more warmth in this book inscription for Hannah Arendt.

They must be *really* worried at the NSA: China establishes ultra-secure, hard-to-hack quantum communications link to South Africa, and might it even scale it to BRICS states by 2027. thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/14/c...

J.G. Ballard would surely be inspired by Hong Kong's 'smart estate management" scheme www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

The dialectic of solutionism

The dominant spirit of MAGA is not nationalism but bovarysme, with America itself auditioning for the role of Madame Bovary.

This great new paper is nominally about how university boards have replaced corporate boards as places where financial elites mingle & expand their clout. Indirectly, though, it sheds light on how parts of Wall Street became key to the anti-woke push on US campuses academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Re-examining the Marcuse-Habermas debate on New Technology has led me to some of the more obscure items in Suhrkamp's back catalog. And how good they are!

“Our task is not to make AI more democratic or digital infrastructure more nationally flavored, but to build technological futures that break free from the very framework that keeps preaching ‘there’s no alternative.’” @evgenymorozov.bsky.social in our most recent forum:

Had a great time giving a talk in Santa Cruz yesterday. Never easy when your first question is from... Donna Haraway!

This is a real ad from 1962. Hard to imagine something so Adornian in 2025.

"Less cement, more silicon"

Some light and Zeitgeist-relevant reading has just arrived to my humble abode

You think you do "research"? Not that simple

Our book of the week reveals how slavery, stolen labor, and ecological destruction in the Caribbean laid the foundations for today’s twin crises of racism and climate collapse. By @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social on @doubledaybooks.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jWERnH

In a new note, Goldman Sachs projects US AI investment to peak at 2% GDP (this would be ~ $560 billion)!

Asset managers, as always, ahead of most leftist analysts, and asking the right questions: "How DeepSeek might dethrone the dollar" ninetyone.com/en/united-ki...

Hard not to get inspired by my views!