Moira Weigel
@moiraweigel.bsky.social
New here | Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
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@moiraweigel.bsky.social is great on this: www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@moiraweigel.bsky.social is great on this: www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
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If you're in the Boston area, come along to the first Capitalism and its Critics workshop today! @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I are hosting the legendary Leopoldina Fortunati to discuss the new translation of The Arcana of Reproduction. At Harvard, Sever Hall 113, at 4pm
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you're in the Boston area, come along to the first Capitalism and its Critics workshop today! @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I are hosting the legendary Leopoldina Fortunati to discuss the new translation of The Arcana of Reproduction. At Harvard, Sever Hall 113, at 4pm
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Zu Karp, Palantir und der Frankfurter Schule empfehle ich den tollen Text von Moira Weigel, die Karps Doktorarbeit sehr genau durchgegangen ist.
www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
July 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Zu Karp, Palantir und der Frankfurter Schule empfehle ich den tollen Text von Moira Weigel, die Karps Doktorarbeit sehr genau durchgegangen ist.
www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...
July 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I put my “dating historian” hat back on to write about a good movie about bad men, now out in a new edition from @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
just found a post it in my office that reads “NIGHTBITCH is also a novel about work”
June 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
just found a post it in my office that reads “NIGHTBITCH is also a novel about work”
I’m honored to have an article in the new issue on “Platform Economies in Digital Asia” edited by Lin Zhang and Elaine Yuan!
I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Notes Toward a World Systems Theory of Platforms: Made in China and India on Amazon.com - Moira Weigel, 2025
This article examines the key role that Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs have played in the growth of Amazon and the varied ways in which they interact with its...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I’m honored to have an article in the new issue on “Platform Economies in Digital Asia” edited by Lin Zhang and Elaine Yuan!
I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I take a comparative look at Amazon entrepreneurs in China and India—and a stab at what “third wave” platform studies might look like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
TIL that this book, which I desperately wanted to teach with but thought had not been translated, is coming out in English in October! Profs teaching tech / labor / digital society take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465353...
May 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
TIL that this book, which I desperately wanted to teach with but thought had not been translated, is coming out in English in October! Profs teaching tech / labor / digital society take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465353...
I talked to @nytimes.com again, this time about the end of the de minimis exemption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I talked to @nytimes.com again, this time about the end of the de minimis exemption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
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See you tonight, Harvard! 6PM! #MoreEverythingForever @harvard.edu @harvardbookstore.bsky.social @maxgladstone.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social
And I'll be at Harvard on Monday 4/28 with @maxgladstone.bsky.social and @moiraweigel.bsky.social talking about how tech bros don't understand science fiction and other fun stuff. Harvard Science Center, 6PM! #MoreEverythingForever Tickets (free) here: www.harvard.com/event/adam-b...
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
See you tonight, Harvard! 6PM! #MoreEverythingForever @harvard.edu @harvardbookstore.bsky.social @maxgladstone.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social
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@moiraweigel.bsky.social knows WTF is going on. 🙌🙌🙌
I wrote about cross-border e-commerce, tariffs, and Trump memes and memorabilia @nytimes.com
Opinion | Donald Trump’s Tariffs Will Only Strengthen China’s Hand (Gift Article)
China’s e-commerce ecosystem illustrates how Trump’s tariffs only strengthen that country’s hand.
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April 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
@moiraweigel.bsky.social knows WTF is going on. 🙌🙌🙌
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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
Harvard & others must counter this quickly
The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever
they aren’t going into universities’ endowments
they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
About to be on CNN morning news, relatedly, just realized I don’t own a lipstick
April 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
About to be on CNN morning news, relatedly, just realized I don’t own a lipstick
I wrote about cross-border e-commerce, tariffs, and Trump memes and memorabilia @nytimes.com
Opinion | Donald Trump’s Tariffs Will Only Strengthen China’s Hand (Gift Article)
China’s e-commerce ecosystem illustrates how Trump’s tariffs only strengthen that country’s hand.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I wrote about cross-border e-commerce, tariffs, and Trump memes and memorabilia @nytimes.com