Limitless
Silicon Valley and the End of the World
Will be published approx. on 27. April 2027
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-83674-281-4 (ISBN)
Description
Limitless is the first comprehensive analysis of the intellectual foundations driving the "tech right". At the inauguration of President Trump in January 2025, the lords of Silicon Valley crowded the podium, but these tech giants do not necessary represent the same politics nor do they share the same vision of power. Benjamin Teilelbaum has been researching, interviewing and challenging these figures for over a decade and can reveal what they really think, lifting the lid on the dangerous future they have in mind for us all.
At the movement's intellectual core are four unlikely philosophers: WWII German jurist Carl Schmitt, French scholar Rene Girard, Italian futurist Filippo Marinetti, and contemporary theorist Giorgio Agamben. From these thinkers, figures like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, JD Vance, and Elon Musk derive a lethal worldview that melds transhumanism, cryptocurrency, and space exploration into one. Teitelbaum exposes the profound contradiction within this new politics of exit: withdrawal from citizenship, national currencies, even language itself. Yet the moment they establish new territories, they recreate everything they fled: replicating it not to improve the lives of the many, but for their own benefit.
At the movement's intellectual core are four unlikely philosophers: WWII German jurist Carl Schmitt, French scholar Rene Girard, Italian futurist Filippo Marinetti, and contemporary theorist Giorgio Agamben. From these thinkers, figures like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, JD Vance, and Elon Musk derive a lethal worldview that melds transhumanism, cryptocurrency, and space exploration into one. Teitelbaum exposes the profound contradiction within this new politics of exit: withdrawal from citizenship, national currencies, even language itself. Yet the moment they establish new territories, they recreate everything they fled: replicating it not to improve the lives of the many, but for their own benefit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83674-281-4 (9781836742814)
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Person
Benjamin Teitelbaum is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. An award-winning expert on the radical right, he is author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right and Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism. And his essays have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The New Statesman, The Nation and The Atlantic.