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DESCRIPTION:Elon Musk. A troubled dreamer. A power-hungry\, vengeful bungle
 r. A hero who became a villain\; a villain who became a hero. What if he i
 sn’t any of these things? What if he was more like an idea? An avatar fo
 r a world view\, the master code for an operating system. This is the topi
 c of Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s new book\, Muskism: A Guide for t
 he Perplexed.\n\nIn this book launch event\, the authors will be joined in
  conversation by Stanford professor Adrian Daub\, author of What Tech Call
 s Thinking.\n\nPlease RSVP at this link to attend. \n\nTo understand Elon 
 Musk and the world he intends to make\, Slobodian and Tarnoff argue\, we h
 ave to understand the worlds that made him. From his early years in aparth
 eid South Africa come a deep commitment to racial hierarchy\, industrial s
 elf-reliance\, and fortress futurism. From Silicon Valley we get the idea 
 to finance moonshot projects with public money. And online we see Musk use
  the tools of virality\, repetition and provocation to undermine legacy in
 stitutions in pursuit of a kind of techno-state. Not dissimilar to the wor
 ld of his beloved video games.\n\nThe worlds that made Musk are now making
  ours. Into a de-globalizing world comes a promise of sovereignty through 
 technology. But not for everyone. The techno-maximalism of the political a
 nd business elite sees a cyborg future and signs us all up.\n\nTo say that
  Muskism is worth taking seriously is not to say that its success is guara
 nteed. But the institutional breakdown of our era offers an opening. At so
 me point\, society will stabilize on a new basis. Muskism could provide th
 e foundation. In this book launch event\, the authors will help us all und
 erstand the ground taking shape beneath us.\n\nQuinn Slobodian is professo
 r of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor
  of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastar
 ds: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capita
 lism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Glo
 balists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. In 2024\, the P
 rospect Magazine (UK) named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers\n\nBe
 n Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the a
 uthor of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Vall
 ey: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a fre
 quent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written f
 or the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among othe
 r publications.\n\nAdrian Daub is an academic and critic based in San Fran
 cisco and Berlin. He is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanit
 ies in the Departments of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Sta
 nford University. Since 2019\, he has also served as the Faculty Director 
 of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. He is the author
  of six academic books as well as several works of cultural and political 
 criticism. His writing regularly appears in magazines and newspapers acros
 s the German-speaking and Anglophone worlds.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff: "Muskism: A Guide
  for the Perplexed"
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