The “Dark Elf” Leading Tech’s Extreme Right w/ Julia Black

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss who Curtis Yarvin is and how his anti-democratic, far-right writings have influenced the politics of Silicon Valley and the wider American extreme right.
Julia Black is a features reporter on The Information’s Weekend Team.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon ( / techwontsaveus ) .
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Julia wrote about Curtis Yarvin (www.theinforma...) and his ideas for The Information. She also wrote about the Musk-aligned tech CEOs (www.theinforma...) trying to shape how we think about the future.
• Paris wrote about Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto (disconnect.blo...) .
• The Dark Enlightenment (en.wikipedia.o...) is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian political project.
• Gil Duran wrote about the Reboot Conference (www.thenerdrei...) and how it put the connections between the tech industry and the Heritage Foundation on display.
• The Heritage Foundation is flooding federal agencies with thousands of information requests (www.propublica...) to identify government employees to be purged under a second Trump administration.
• Peter Thiel wanted Balaji Srinivasan to become head of the Federal Drug Administration (www.vox.com/sc...) under the Trump presidency.
• According to Nick Land, hyperstition (en.wikipedia.o...) refers to ideas that bring themselves into being.
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not the dark elves

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"The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)
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