Harvard Book Store and Boston Review welcome JS Tan—Ph.D. Candidate at MIT whose work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian—and Clarissa Redwine—Kickstarter union organizer and cofounder of the tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers—for a discussion of their new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry. They will be joined in conversation by Ben Tarnoff—technologist and author of numerous books, including Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian.

Everybody’s talking about “pacing the frontier.” A funny phrase.

Join Ben Tarnoff (Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian), historian Kim Phillips-Fein (Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long ...

Subcultures have never been a retreat from politics. They have always been terrain of class struggle, and socialists who forget this abandon some of the richest ground the left has.

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Workers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the...

You’re invited to the official preorder launch of Against Tech Oligarchy, the first history of the tech worker movement published by Haymarket Books. Join DSA Tech Action, Verso Books, and leaders acr...

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days

As Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.

The authors of Muskism break down the beliefs, business strategy, and political influence behind the world’s richest man.

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

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The soon-to-be trillionaire’s politics undermine his own business as a government contractor.

The mode of production behind the man

Musk’s transformation into a hyperactive super-troll reveals essential features of his economic vision.

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, in their conversation with L. Zhang, discuss the political-economic model they call "Muskism."

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Yes, it’s a warning about the dangers of AI. But that’s the tip of the iceberg.

A conversation with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.