Around the world, states have become dependent on Elon Musk and his infrastructure. What is Musk’s unprecedented rise a symptom of? And what does it mean for state sovereignty? We spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their new book Muskism. 🔗 verfassungsblog.de/muskism/

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

Join us on March 16 at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social !! What a pleasure to host @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com talking about #Muskism

"He propagates what we call cyborg conservatism." I spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com for this week’s @verfassungsblog.de editorial about their new book "Muskism" and the fusion of political authority and machine power. 📖 Read the full interview here: verfassungsblog.de/muskism/

Quinn Slobodian und Ben Tarnoff präsentieren ihr neues Buch »Muskismus« in Berlin. Wie fordert Elon Musk die Demokratie heraus? Wie wurde er zu einer Ikone der Rechten? Diese Fragen diskutieren @quinnslobodian.com und @bentarnoff.com mit @czykchick.bsky.social hier: shrk.vg/Buchpremiere-B

Just finished this book and it's so good. Essential reading for understanding the current iteration of computerized capitalism

Also all-ages DIY music venues in every city in America. We will repair the social fabric one hardcore band at a time

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Wer die Welt verstehen will, die Elon Musk erschafft, muss die Ideologien verstehen, die ihn prägten. @quinnslobodian.com und @bentarnoff.com zeigen, wie Disruption zur Religion wurde, der Mythos vom Tech-Helden entstand – und rechte Meme-Kultur in den Mainstream sickerte: shrk.vg/Muskismus-B

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

MUSKISM in Berlin! with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin socializationproject.de/event/muskis...

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

Not sure we’ll ever get back to a moment in interviews for this book when @bentarnoff.com summoned Deutscher on Trotsky to describe the world historical turning point when Sven turned Musk away from the door at Berghain.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Pig Destroyer is the new alpha in Silicon Valley

Nice review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9780063484320

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Thx @financialtimes.com and @foreignpolicy.com, @bentarnoff.com and I are also anticipating

Good writeup on the current state of tech worker organizing featuring the @techactions.bsky.social crew www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Thx to @grandcontinent.bsky.social for putting my and @bentarnoff.com's Muskism book on their list of ones to watch for in 2026. There's some good ones on here, including Nick Mulder's Age of Confiscation, which is bonkers. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/2...

proof(s)!

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

This is a great article by @bentarnoff.com jacobin.com/2025/12/digi...

The force with which I just smashed the preorder button may have seriously damaged my keyboard. Tarnoff and Slobodian, writing a booklength guide to Muskism? Yes, pleaseandthankyou.

I have a piece out today that explores what socialist mayors like Zohran and Katie Wilson can do to fight the tech oligarchy and build a technological alternative at the municipal level. I call it the “digital sewer socialist stack” jacobin.com/2025/12/digi...

Really sad to hear about the passing of Asad Haider. Such a brilliant mind and such a sweet guy. And a great lover of Tiki cocktails

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I wrote a book with Quinn Slobodian called MUSKISM. It'll be published in the US in April 2026, and I hope you'll consider pre-ordering it. The elevator pitch is: if Fordism defined the capitalism of the 20th century, Muskism may well define the capitalism of the 21st.

Feels like this wouldn't happen even 20 years ago? Internal labor markets meant you cut your teeth reporting the facts on night court or whatever then eventually you get to interview the mayor. Now you go to an ivy, build a brand, maybe a podcast and take that brand between papers.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

I do have a soft spot for computer programming books from the 1970s.

Boston area friends and colleagues! I will be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social tomorrow (Wed 10/1) in conversation with @bentarnoff.com at 7 pm. All info here: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

If you're in the Boston area, come see me quiz @triofrancos.bsky.social about her new book EXTRACTION in Brookline on Wednesday brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

Morning walk

Pretty sure the civil rights act of 1964 polls better than every single living democratic politician and some good dead ones. The idea that you’d give up that advantage, that you’d betray CENTURIES of work by a multiracial coalition of Americans, to prove how much you like Charlie Kirk, is insane.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

woke up this morning thinking about this

EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others. Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com

I could see "abolish the mobile web" as a demand that gets some traction over the next decade or so