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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

  • The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • Social media and the devaluation of introspection

  • Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

  • The Silicon Valley Narrative

  • Technology, regulation and disruption

  • Uber as a moral project

  • The Workation

  • The cultural lure of Silicon Valley

  • The Importance of Business Culture

  • The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

  • Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

  • Hip hop culture, philanthrocapitalism and getting shit done 

  • How life coaching spreads in corporate cultures

  • The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

  • The Bechdel test for tech conferences

  • Aaron Swartz on digital business models

  • A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

  • The Reactionary Politics of Tech Bros

  • business for rappers

  • the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

  • the carefully cultivated public persona of Eric Schmidt

  • the creative destruction of intra-organisational conflict

  • business for punks from the bottom-up

  • How Google models itself on graduate school

  • the obsessive secrecy of Apple

  • the psychology of business for punks

  • the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

  • on ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’

  • the traditional model of information flow within organisations

  • the sociology of executive coaching

  • the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

  • don’t give money to anyone wearing a suit!

  • The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

  • The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

  • The meritocratic elitism of Google 

  • The Ontology of Corporate Grievance

  • Google’s war against latency

  • the burden of chrono-reflexivity at work

  • Google Anything, So Long as It’s Not Google

  • the corporate housewife, eliminating the need for mundane reflexivity

  • the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

  • grooming the next generation of the digital elite

  • institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

  • Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets

  • Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

  • “world of warcraft is the new golf”

  • peter thiel on the first silicon valley gold rush

  • the origins of apple as a luxury goods company 

  • organisational minimalism

  • the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

  • how the digital elites do festivals 

  • mark zuckerberg’s philosophy of techno-fascism

  • loyalty to the facebook mission 

  • transparency and opacity in digital capitalism

  • the gift economy of the digital elite 

  • the motivational challenge of corporate success in tech

  • the extremely disturbing dreams of mark zuckerberg 

  • the rituals of tech bros 

  • the creepy rituals of the facebook office

  • mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!

  • the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

  • how many dancing billionaires are there at burning man?

  • acronyms seriously suck 

  • the hiring rituals of tech companies 

  • the paypal mafia

  • the expanding ambitions of digital elites 

  • the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

  • the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

  • the insular world of a technology giant

  • the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

  • the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

  • the motivational culture of early microsoft 

  • before google and their staff perks, came microsoft and its free drinks

  • the horatio alger myth

  • the threats of financial elites 

  • the threats of financial elites 

  • the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

  • the masters of the universe and their delusions

  • “drag coefficient”: the creepiest human resources concept ever?

  • the social expectations of the super-rich

  • the self-congratulation of digital elites 

  • markets are a machine for destroying the ego

  • pride and pleasure in acceleration 

  • data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

  • the culture of the ‘working rich’

  • digital capitalism, the great levelling and the moral agency of elites

  • we are all equal before Google

  • viral media and unionisation

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