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Brought to you by Penguin. A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age Who on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles? According to the constant media gush driven by his every...

Wie wurde aus dem genialischen Nerd eine kettensägenschwingende Ikone der globalen Rechten? Um die Welt zu begreifen, die Musk erschafft, müssen wir die Welten verstehen, die Musk erschaffen haben. Quinn Slobodian und Ben Tarnoff zeichnen nach, wie sich im Silicon Valley um die Vorstellungen von Disruption und tollkühnen CEOs ein regelrechter Kult bildete, wie soziale Medien und Videospiele die Erzählung vom heldenhaften Einzelgänger etablierten und wie rassistische Memes und Verschwörungstheorien Eingang fanden in die Gedankenwelt des reichsten Menschen der Erde.

Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. It's time to demand an internet by and for the people.