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Barcode30293102379521
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No330.122 Slob
TitleMuskism : a guide for the perplexed / Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff.
AuthorSlobodian, Quinn, 1978- author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves1
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Clark County30293102379521330.122 Slob5/12/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063484320 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0063484323 (hardcover)
Personal Name Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- author.
Title Statement Muskism : a guide for the perplexed / Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff.
Edition Statement First US edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2026.
Physical Description xi, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
General Note "Originally published in Great Britain in 2026 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"-- Title page verso.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-223) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction: An operating system for the twentieth century -- Part one: Foundation. Fortress futurism -- The superset -- Sovereignty as a service -- Electric autonomy -- Part two: Cyborg. Attention alchemy -- Cybernetic collectives -- Godwin's engine -- State X -- Conclusion: Four futures for Muskism.
Summary, Etc. A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age. Everyone's got an Elon take. He's a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn't a glitch in the system--he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect, the more he owns you. If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It's pro-natalist but anti-immigrant, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy, where to be "free" means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn't about the man. It's about the machine that made him--and the world he's making next.
Subject-Personal Name Musk, Elon.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Capitalism.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Oligarchy.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Wealth Moral and ethical aspects.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Entry, Personal Name Tarnoff, Ben, author.

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