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Breakneck
China's Quest to Engineer the Future
The hosts highlighted the title as one of the two major books from the previous year, mentioning it alongside another notable work. Jon Stewart referenced the book as a key source shaping discussions about technology and geopolitics, indicating its significance for the audience.
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The hosts referenced Breakneck as one of the two major books of the previous year alongside Abundance.
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the idea that was propagated in two of the big books of last year, one, Abundance, the other, Breakneck by Dan Wang.
Persian Grove Journal
Stewart noted that he had just published the first volume of his Diaries, explaining that the book aimed to demonstrate that politicians are ultimately human beings.
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I'd just published my first volume of Diaries, I thought, and I was really on a roll and I was getting through it. And I said, look, this book is just trying to show that in the end, politicians are j...
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Stewart noted that he had just published the first volume of his Diaries, explaining that the book aimed to demonstrate that politicians are ultimately human beings.
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I'd just published my first volume of Diaries, I thought, and I was really on a roll and I was getting through it. And I said, look, this book is just trying to show that in the end, politicians are just human beings.
Muskism
A Guide for the Perplexed
The hosts said the new book Muskism examined Musk as a standin for technocrats and explored how his empire impacted government and society.
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we're going to be talking about this new book uh called Muskism and it's about he's sort of a standin for this idea of the technocrats and the technologists.
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The hosts said the new book Muskism examined Musk as a standin for technocrats and explored how his empire impacted government and society.
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we're going to be talking about this new book uh called Muskism and it's about he's sort of a standin for this idea of the technocrats and the technologists.
the book we called Muskism because we wanted to force that comparison you know what did ford do how did fordism stabilize society in a time of disruptive change right and what by contrast is musk failing to do we think in this present moment to kind of stabilize the disruptive effects of the technology that he's and his silicon valley class brethren are rolling out now
Get the book. Yeah. I think you will enjoy it. Muskism.
Hayek's Bastards
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures, 9)
The program noted that Quinn Slobodian was also the author of Hayek's Bastards.
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coauthor of the book Muskism and author of Hayek's Bastards Quinn Slobodian is joining us today
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The program noted that Quinn Slobodian was also the author of Hayek's Bastards.
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coauthor of the book Muskism and author of Hayek's Bastards Quinn Slobodian is joining us today
Abundance
The hosts referenced Abundance as one of the two major books of the previous year alongside Breakneck.
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the idea that was propagated in two of the big books of last year, one, Abundance, the other, Breakneck by Dan Wang.
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The hosts referenced Abundance as one of the two major books of the previous year alongside Breakneck.
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the idea that was propagated in two of the big books of last year, one, Abundance, the other, Breakneck by Dan Wang.
The Peripheral
The conversation mentioned that William Gibson wrote the whole book The Peripheral, which explored simulation theory.
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William Gibson wrote a whole book, The Peripheral that was sort of based on this premise.
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The conversation mentioned that William Gibson wrote the whole book The Peripheral, which explored simulation theory.
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William Gibson wrote a whole book, The Peripheral that was sort of based on this premise.
Manifestly Haraway (Volume 37) (Posthumanities)
The hosts cited Donna Haraway's essay The Cyborg Manifesto as a seminal 1980s work about the intersection of technology and identity.
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Donna Haraway, 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.
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The hosts cited Donna Haraway's essay The Cyborg Manifesto as a seminal 1980s work about the intersection of technology and identity.
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Donna Haraway, 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.
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