My review of The Technological Republic by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and exec Nicholas Zamiska is out. They call for Silicon Valley to re-align with the Pentagon, where democracy is obsolete, engineers shift from apps to weapons, and code becomes law. Tech is no longer just for profit. It’s for war.
30.05.2025 10:31 — 👍 49 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 3
Palantir’s Technological Republic: The Militarised Tech Oligarchy is Here - Political Economy Research Centre
In his farewell address this January, then US President Joe Biden delivered a striking warning: a “tech oligarchy”, he said, now threatens American democracy. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning about the mi...
As part of PERC's Silicon Valley Ideology series, @alirizataskale.bsky.social reviews The Technological Republic, by Palantir's CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The books is an unapologetic blueprint for a militarised tech oligarchy that threatens democracy and needs to be resisted.
30.05.2025 08:48 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2
Silicon Valley Dynasties: The Pronatalist Project of Big Tech - Political Economy Research Centre
In a techno-libertarian twist on traditional pronatalism, Silicon Valley elites position reproduction as an ideological instrument to ‘future-proof’ innovation, based on a privileged upper-class posit...
The PERC blog is back and we celebrate with a new piece for the Silicon Valley series by Anna Rohmann. Anna delves into the pronatalist philosophy that Musk and SV tech elites have advocated for - a vision the Trump administration is gleefully supporting through the implementation of Project 2025
17.04.2025 10:08 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Ann, just a quick word to say the website is back on and that Inga's piece is now a accessible again. Thanks for your patience!
17.04.2025 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Silicon Valley Dynasties: The Pronatalist Project of Big Tech - Political Economy Research Centre
In a techno-libertarian twist on traditional pronatalism, Silicon Valley elites position reproduction as an ideological instrument to ‘future-proof’ innovation, based on a privileged upper-class posit...
The PERC blog is back and we celebrate with a new piece for the Silicon Valley series by Anna Rohmann. Anna delves into the pronatalist philosophy that Musk and SV tech elites have advocated for - a vision the Trump administration is gleefully supporting through the implementation of Project 2025
17.04.2025 10:08 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Finance Aesthetics Book Launch
Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors
Next Tuesday, come to the launch of Finance Aesthetics hosted by @goldsmithspress.bsky.social w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - all welcome but registration required www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae...
02.04.2025 11:41 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Finance Aesthetics Book Launch
Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors
Next Tuesday, come to the launch of Finance Aesthetics hosted by @goldsmithspress.bsky.social w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - all welcome but registration required www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae...
02.04.2025 11:41 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Finance Aesthetics
A Critical Glossary
'Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary' is the latest publication from the @goldsmithspress.bsky.social PERC series, with a stellar lineup of contributors www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
14.03.2025 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Finance Aesthetics Book Launch
Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors
Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
14.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Finance Aesthetics
A Critical Glossary
'Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary' is the latest publication from the @goldsmithspress.bsky.social PERC series, with a stellar lineup of contributors www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
14.03.2025 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Finance Aesthetics Book Launch
Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors
Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
14.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Hi Ann, yes it has, unfortunately! We didn't receive any prior notice, and it is proving harder to get it back than we expected. But we are working on it. It might take a couple of weeks but the website will hopefully be back online soon.
10.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Silicon Valley: from Tech Utopia to Reactionary Dystopia - Political Economy Research Centre
Silicon Valley helped elect a president who is clearly looking out for its interests – by weakening antitrust laws, rolling back regulations, cutting social programs, and loosening labor protections. ...
2025 seems the right moment to have PERC's 'Silicon Valley Ideology' series back on! We start with @alirizataskale.bsky.social 's reflections on SV tech giants' calculated embrace of Trump and the Right, their hatred of democracy and the reactionary tech future they have in store for us. More below👇
27.01.2025 12:31 — 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
Controlling Capital - Political Economy Research Centre
Capital controls are restrictions on international capital flows which may include taxes, prohibitions, or approvals. These restrictions were used extensively in the post-war era but progressively los...
We inaugurate our brand new bluesky account with a new post by @ingarade.bsky.social on capital controls. Drawing on Keynes, Inga argues that capital controls might be essential to the economic and democratic management of Western societies. More below 👇
24.01.2025 14:59 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012)
Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (2020)
More (open access) writings at https://s0metim3s.com/mitropoulos/
Lecturer in Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel; incoming Post-Doc at Max Planck Institute. Labour, culture & elites. Ethnographer of butlers.
Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Small time sociologist.
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Professor, international political economy, corporations, CSR/ESG politics, cat lover, wannabe mando player
Writer, sociologist. Yoga & mindfulness teacher. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
Ways of being human in a technosocial age...
PhD researcher at the University of Warwick | Researching debts-to-government, social reproduction, and the role of the state
Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
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Coming in January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. In the meantime check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
Sociologist at the University of Warwick.
Professor of Politics, York University, Toronto
Editor, Historical Materialism
Propagandist for an impossible country.
Two letters away from a tax haven.
Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination
Assoc. Prof. at UCPH, literary critic at Politiken, author of Going Nowhere, Slow & Klodens fald & Slutspil & (soon) The Birth of the Financial Thriller & (later, at one point) The Climate Endgame
Mail: mikkelfrantzen@hum.ku.dk
Bluesky account for the Department of Law at the University of London
Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Editor at Finance and Society. Writing about reputation, personality and financialized culture.
In search of long walks and a post doc. Political economy maybe? Trying to write a book about the bank of England and become a real academic. Do I need to say I have a PhD? I have a PhD. Just recently!
Geographer at UBC, editor of EPA: Economy & Space; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
