The Virus Elon Musk Fears: On Muskism, Technofeudalism, and Subaltern Cybernetics
By Nik M.
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s newly released Muskism traces the biography and ideology of the Elon Musk, the man currently reshaping the digital world. In his review, Nik M. traces the inculcation of “fortress” and racialist ideas in Musk’s upbringing in apartheid South Africa, the new model of tech domination dependent on exploitation of state power, and, finally, the “woke mind virus” that terrifies Musk, explains his aggression, and may just be the ghost in the machine necessary to stop him.
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