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:


http://www.moiraweigel.com/


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:


https://logicmag.io/


Homepage Data Society


https://datasociety.net/


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):


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism


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:


https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/


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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