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Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy w/ Gil Durán

A cult of fascist ideology has gripped Silicon Valley, and the tech industrial complex is threatening US democracy. Gil Durán joins Paris Marx to discuss the radical billionaire cabal that is hellbent on the consolidation of corporate and political power, including the visions they have for the future and the strategies they’re using to drive us there. Gil Durán is the author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy and writes The Nerd Reich newsletter. The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon. Also mentioned in this episode: Click here to get your first month of Proton Mail for just $1. Gil has written about Paulina Borsook’s prescient warning about tech libertarians from more than twenty years ago. Gil has written the foreword for the new edition of Cyberselfish. Balaji Srinivasan has moved his commune project to Kazakhstan after being booted from Malaysia. Shout-out to friend of the pod Quinn Slobodian, who’s work you can find here. Paris recently talked to Quinn, check out that episode here if you missed it. Support the show

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A cult of fascist ideology has gripped Silicon Valley, and the tech industrial complex is threatening US democracy. Gil Durán joins Paris Marx to discuss the radical billionaire cabal that is hellbent on the consolidation of corporate and political power, including the visions they have for the future and the strategies they’re using to drive us there.

Gil Durán is the author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy and writes The Nerd Reich newsletter. 

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Click here to get your first month of Proton Mail for just $1.
  • Gil has written about Paulina Borsook’s prescient warning about tech libertarians from more than twenty years ago.
  • Gil has written the foreword for the new edition of Cyberselfish.
  • Balaji Srinivasan has moved his commune project to Kazakhstan after being booted from Malaysia. 
  • Shout-out to friend of the pod Quinn Slobodian, who’s work you can find here. Paris recently talked to Quinn, check out that episode here if you missed it.

Support the show

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