6:30pm Mon 5 Oct | Dr Evgeny Morozov | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

In early December 2025, The Ideas Letter published an essay by Evgeny Morozov that critiqued socialists for not fully recognising the implications of artificial intelligence for reimagining a feasible...

Taking issue with Benanav’s institutional vision of a democratic political economy of technology, Morozov argues that generative AI exposes a deeper problem that socialism has yet to solve: how to…

Taking issue with Benanav’s institutional vision of a democratic political economy of technology, Morozov argues that generative AI exposes a deeper problem that socialism has yet to solve: how to…

Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Taking issue with Benanav’s institutional vision of a democratic political economy of technology, Morozov argues that generative AI exposes a deeper problem that socialism has yet to solve: how to…

Morozov argues that socialist attempts to harness AI have merely treated it like earlier tools of capitalist production—as a neutral instrument that can simply be redirected. In fact, he says,…

Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)

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Western social theorists have begun positing the possibility of a new feudal mode of production putting an end to capitalism. Some of these writers have called this “neo-feudalism” and others “tech...

Der Kybernetiker Warren Brodey arbeitet sein Leben lang an Technologien, die den Menschen helfen, sich weiterzuentwickeln. Nun ist er gestorben, aber seine Ideen sind so zeitgemäß wie nie.

Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2025)

Quinn Slobodian makes the case that evolving metaphors from the garden to the factory drive the narrative of neoliberalism – in this response, Morozov argues that Slobodian misidentified which symbols...

Quinn Slobodian makes the case that evolving metaphors from the garden to the factory drive the narrative of neoliberalism – in this response, Morozov argues that Slobodian misidentified which symbols...

Lange tijd hield de top van Silicon Valley zich vooral bezig met het verzinnen van slimme tech en apps. Maar tegenwoordig zien we een nieuw type techbaas: de oligarch-intellectueel. Absurd rijk, filos...

Lange tijd hield de top van Silicon Valley zich vooral bezig met het verzinnen van slimme tech en apps. Maar tegenwoordig zien we een nieuw type techbaas: de oligarch-intellectueel. Absurd rijk, filos...

Par Evgeny Morozov (Silicon circus, Les blogs du Diplo, 14 avril 2025)

Einst begnügten sich Tech-Mogule damit, die Zukunft vorherzusagen, heute verlangen sie, dass wir uns an ihre Vorhersagen halten. Und nutzen ihren Einfluss, um ihre Prophezeiungen in Politik umzuwandel...

Einst begnügten sich Tech-Mogule damit, die Zukunft vorherzusagen, heute verlangen sie, dass wir uns an ihre Vorhersagen halten. Und nutzen ihren Einfluss, um ihre Prophezeiungen in Politik umzuwandel...

Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape pub...

Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape pub...

Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape pub...

Morozov describes a newly emerged Silicon Valley class of “oligarch-intellectuals,” billionaire tech elites who combine vast wealth, ideological ambition, and the philosophical pretense to reshape pub...