Evgeny Morozov
@evgenymorozov.bsky.social
Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Speaking in Vienna tomorrow evening
June 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Speaking in Vienna tomorrow evening
The tough life in the sun made somewhat sweeter by my eInk screen!
June 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The tough life in the sun made somewhat sweeter by my eInk screen!
Imagine being a Hungarian Marxist philosopher named György Fukász.
April 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Imagine being a Hungarian Marxist philosopher named György Fukász.
Am in El Pais Ideas today
April 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Am in El Pais Ideas today
GPT status update from my Deep Research query about the future of work. Wait till it forms a union with its fellow comrades Claude and Gemini!
March 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
GPT status update from my Deep Research query about the future of work. Wait till it forms a union with its fellow comrades Claude and Gemini!
Why do firms exist? Apparently, to borrow money - and invest in crypto. This will surely end well.
March 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Why do firms exist? Apparently, to borrow money - and invest in crypto. This will surely end well.
Curious just how much important scientific work (including the Manhattan Project or even much of the early work on neural networks) would not have survived the need to track "weekly accomplishments" via a dedicated app.
March 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Curious just how much important scientific work (including the Manhattan Project or even much of the early work on neural networks) would not have survived the need to track "weekly accomplishments" via a dedicated app.
They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.
March 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.
The weirdness of the capitalist modernity: AI might be a form of modern magic but it doesn't mean it wouldn't be mobilized against the capitalist excesses of the pre-modern kind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The weirdness of the capitalist modernity: AI might be a form of modern magic but it doesn't mean it wouldn't be mobilized against the capitalist excesses of the pre-modern kind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It feels like Jürgen could have expressed just a bit more warmth in this book inscription for Hannah Arendt.
March 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It feels like Jürgen could have expressed just a bit more warmth in this book inscription for Hannah Arendt.
They must be *really* worried at the NSA: China establishes ultra-secure, hard-to-hack quantum communications link to South Africa, and might it even scale it to BRICS states by 2027. thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/14/c...
March 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
They must be *really* worried at the NSA: China establishes ultra-secure, hard-to-hack quantum communications link to South Africa, and might it even scale it to BRICS states by 2027. thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/14/c...
J.G. Ballard would surely be inspired by Hong Kong's 'smart estate management" scheme www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
March 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
J.G. Ballard would surely be inspired by Hong Kong's 'smart estate management" scheme www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
The dialectic of solutionism
March 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The dialectic of solutionism
This great new paper is nominally about how university boards have replaced corporate boards as places where financial elites mingle & expand their clout. Indirectly, though, it sheds light on how parts of Wall Street became key to the anti-woke push on US campuses academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
March 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This great new paper is nominally about how university boards have replaced corporate boards as places where financial elites mingle & expand their clout. Indirectly, though, it sheds light on how parts of Wall Street became key to the anti-woke push on US campuses academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Re-examining the Marcuse-Habermas debate on New Technology has led me to some of the more obscure items in Suhrkamp's back catalog. And how good they are!
March 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Re-examining the Marcuse-Habermas debate on New Technology has led me to some of the more obscure items in Suhrkamp's back catalog. And how good they are!
Had a great time giving a talk in Santa Cruz yesterday. Never easy when your first question is from... Donna Haraway!
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Had a great time giving a talk in Santa Cruz yesterday. Never easy when your first question is from... Donna Haraway!
This is a real ad from 1962. Hard to imagine something so Adornian in 2025.
February 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This is a real ad from 1962. Hard to imagine something so Adornian in 2025.
"Less cement, more silicon"
February 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"Less cement, more silicon"
Some light and Zeitgeist-relevant reading has just arrived to my humble abode
February 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Some light and Zeitgeist-relevant reading has just arrived to my humble abode
You think you do "research"? Not that simple
February 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
You think you do "research"? Not that simple
In a new note, Goldman Sachs projects US AI investment to peak at 2% GDP (this would be ~ $560 billion)!
February 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
In a new note, Goldman Sachs projects US AI investment to peak at 2% GDP (this would be ~ $560 billion)!
Asset managers, as always, ahead of most leftist analysts, and asking the right questions: "How DeepSeek might dethrone the dollar" ninetyone.com/en/united-ki...
February 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Asset managers, as always, ahead of most leftist analysts, and asking the right questions: "How DeepSeek might dethrone the dollar" ninetyone.com/en/united-ki...
Hard not to get inspired by my views!
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hard not to get inspired by my views!
I can only guess how the poor Habermas reacted to this book cover design back in 1978
February 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I can only guess how the poor Habermas reacted to this book cover design back in 1978
This incredible piece on a failing libertarian utopia in Honduras has it all:
- Tech bros preaching national "poverty relief" from gated communities
- Contrite Nobel-winning economist complainig his ideas are misused
- Libertarian tax-hating project freeriding on public services
shorturl.at/v7eNL
- Tech bros preaching national "poverty relief" from gated communities
- Contrite Nobel-winning economist complainig his ideas are misused
- Libertarian tax-hating project freeriding on public services
shorturl.at/v7eNL
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This incredible piece on a failing libertarian utopia in Honduras has it all:
- Tech bros preaching national "poverty relief" from gated communities
- Contrite Nobel-winning economist complainig his ideas are misused
- Libertarian tax-hating project freeriding on public services
shorturl.at/v7eNL
- Tech bros preaching national "poverty relief" from gated communities
- Contrite Nobel-winning economist complainig his ideas are misused
- Libertarian tax-hating project freeriding on public services
shorturl.at/v7eNL