S01E42
Moira Weigel on Palantir, Tech-Nationalism & Aggression in the Life-World
In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir’s CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document.
Shownotes
Moira Weigel’s Website:
Moira on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/moiragweigel
Moira Weigel at Harvard:
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0
Weigel, Moira und Ben Tranoff (Hg.). 2020. Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It. San Francisco: Logic:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675
Weigel, Moira. 2020. "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School”. Artikel. b2o: an online journal (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2021):
https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)
Weigel, Moira. 2016. Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating. London: Macmillan Publishers:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133
German translation: Weigel, Moira. Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Übersetzt von Anna-Nina Kroll. München: Penguin Verlag:
https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhd
Logic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:
Homepage Data Society
Literature mentioned in the Interview:
Karp, Alexander. 2002. Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur. (Dissertation, Philosophie):
https://d-nb.info/966060652/34
Bernstein, Joseph. 2017. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream". Blogeintrag. In BuzzFeed News (full article online):
Adorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Übersetzt von tanowski, Knut und Frederic Will. Evanston: Northwestern University Press:
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticity
Adorno, Theodor W. 1964. Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie. Berlin: Sihrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.html
Barbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture vol. 6(1): 44-72 (PDF link and full article online):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideology
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/
Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs:
Hwang, Tim. 2020. Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. London: Macmillan:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651
Additional Shownotes:
Homepage Tech Workers Coalition:
https://techworkerscoalition.org/
Wiki on Techno-nationalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalism
Wiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
Wiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_Unit
Wiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics:
S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook
(German) S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski
(German) S01E29 | mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel
(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:
https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld
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