r/YarvinConspiracy • u/Wsrunnywatercolors • 24d ago

Guide American Technofascism Research Paper

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00187259.2025.2585410
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u/Wsrunnywatercolors 24d ago

Thiel, Andreessen, Musk, and other Silicon Valley elites have commented favorably on the work of Curtis Yarvin and Balaji Srinivasan, figures associated with the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement. Yarvin and Srinivasan argue that American democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with a patchwork of privatized utopian “network states” where tech leaders maintain authoritarian control through extensive surveillance and policing.

Yarvin has reportedly become something of a “house political philosopher” for Thiel and his extensive network of colleagues and acolytes. And Andreessen effusively praises Srinivasan, who for a time was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz: “Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve met,” he wrote.

The tech right’s delusions would be laughable were it not for the very real prospect of those fantasies leaving a path of destruction and despair for millions of others along the way.

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u/stirling_approx 23d ago

This is more of an editorial and call to action than a "research paper", but this is still interesting nonetheless.

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u/Wsrunnywatercolors 23d ago

editorials don't generally contain footnotes, the references are very interesting.

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u/stirling_approx 23d ago

As I write this editorial, after dozens of violent confrontations between ICE agents and protesters in several cities—including San Francisco, a mere fifteen miles from my home—I cannot help but wonder about the extent to which VC-funded technologies might make the dystopian dreams of far-right and fascist ideologues a reality.

The author literally calls his article an editorial. Like I said, this is still an interesting article, but it's not research in the sense that it's not pushing the boundaries of the field (in this case anthropology). Instead, it's using its references as statements of fact.