Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Right, exactly.
So we have this callback to Donna Haraway, the communication scholar, this wonderful essay called The Cyborg Manifesto in the 1980s, where she said, you know, the cyborg is kind of a product of the military industrial complex.
It tends towards informatics, right?
The computer is developed by the military to fulfill its own needs, you know, servo mechanisms, anti-aircraft guns, and all the way through.
But it also has a potential to do interesting and new things to human identity, right?
If we are able to connect to each other in that way, we can dissolve traditional gender binaries, traditional cultures.
racial hierarchies theoretically like it's kind of the liberatory side of on the internet nobody knows you're a dog like if you think about that as like an actual like like rousing political slogan for a moment then what musk is trying to do is to squeeze that all back in a box and do what we call cyborg conservatism and say like we want all the technology but none of the emancipation we want to hold on to these high bound hierarchies it's control it is control it
Thank you.
It was a pleasure.
Well, we use that term because social scientists and others have found it helpful to say Fordism rather than just focus on Ford, because it makes you think about all the parts of the social world that are necessary for, you know, Ford's factories to work.
So when you say Fordism, you don't just think about cars, but you think about the nuclear family, the male breadwinner, the welfare state, mass consumption plus mass production.
It becomes this whole ensemble of relationships.
And our book tries to recreate that for Musk.
Muskism is the promise of sovereignty through technology that's offered to nations and individuals.
but it cashes out as greater dependence on often individual heads of enormous tech companies like Elon Musk himself.
Yeah, so far it's projected to go public at $1.8 trillion is the most commonly cited figure, which will be the biggest IPO in history and will immediately make SpaceX the sixth or seventh largest company ever.
in the world by market cap.
It would raise $75 to $80 billion right out of the gate for Musk himself to dispose of.
So it's really a massive generational, really, moment for the corporate world and for the stock markets to see if it can sustain this, whether there will be kind of a halo effect that ripples out from it, or if it will trigger the kind of the beginning of the bust, actually, of this latest AI boom.
Yeah, there's even some wilder rhetoric than that.
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