Tag: Silicon Valley

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Certain Unflattering Truths

Jennifer Schaffer

January 15, 2020

Anna Wiener infiltrates the panopticon.

The Uber Presidency

Ross Barkan

May 16, 2019

As Trump is the apotheosis of rank materialism and revanchist nationalism in the political arena, Uber is Silicon Valley’s greatest and most absurd offering to the American public.

Close Encounters of the Digital Kind

Emily Harnett

March 08, 2019

When Silicon Valley usurps the transcendent potential of extraterrestrial life

Scream Time

Will Meyer

February 19, 2019

Apple’s surveillance as self-care

Capitalism’s New Clothes

Evgeny Morozov

February 04, 2019

Shoshana Zuboff's new book on "surveillance capitalism" emphasizes the former at the expense of the latter.

Silicon Valley’s Chinese Dream

Jacob Silverman

November 21, 2018

China’s rise as a tech powerhouse has dovetailed with Silicon Valley’s growing distrust toward democracy itself.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 29, 2018

What cheese wheels we so proudly hail’d

This Could Revolutionize That

Kieran Dahl

April 05, 2018

Mindlessly in thrall to Silicon Valley, the media can't stop repeating the phrase "could revolutionize" in its headlines.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 19, 2018

Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 05, 2018

From the folks who brought you Juicero. After unsuccessfully trying to foist a $400 juice-pouch-squeezing machine on the masses, Silicon Valley luminary Doug Evans took some time to ponder the Next Big Thing. He found it in water—raw, unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized ...

The Carpetbaggers of Tech

Julianne Tveten

December 19, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Steve Chase, and J.D. Vance launch tech's takeover of the heartland.

Pets or Livestock?

Chris Lehmann

November 27, 2017

Anthony Levandowski's AI church, the Way of the Future, reminds us that the Silicon Valley power elite is utterly beguiled with gnosticism.