Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff

Muskism (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide for the Perplexed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age

Everyone's got an Elon take. He's a messiah. He's a menace. He's a genius. He's a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual.

Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn't a glitch in the systemhe is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect, the more he owns you.

If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His rockets run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us.

Muskism sells itself as the future, but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It's libertarian but state-fed, pro-natalist but anti-immigrant, futurist but reactionary.

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy, where to be free means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn't about the man. It's about the machine that made himand the world he's making next.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063484337
• Artikelnr.: 74251496

Autorenporträt

Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including, Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. In 2024, the Prospect Magazine (UK) named him one of the World's 25 Top Thinkers.

Rezensionen

"This book is brilliant in all the ways Elon Musk is not: unflinchingly honest, actually humorous, and deeply humane. Unlike their subject, these authors punch up, not down, and they do so with erudition and precision. A wholly original and insightful analysis that deserves to be read by the billions of people impacted by Musk's pathological quest for power and wealth." - Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity

"Muskism cuts straight to the core of the man and the moment, explaining how a mercurial, conspiracy-prone, vicious bastard can inspire loyalty and billions in other peoples' money, and the nightmare world he wants to build with those billions." - Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification and editor of Pluralistic