Skip to content
Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Events
  • Research
    • LLMs and social life
    • Higher education
    • Psychodynamics
    • Realism and social theory
    • Platforms
    • Academic practice
  • Stuff I Like
    • Urban Geometries
  • Public writing
  • Publications
  • Media coverage
  • Get In Touch
  • LinkedIn
  • SoundCloud
  • YouTube
  • Spotify
  • What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

  • The private symposia of the rich and powerful

  • Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

  • Technology and the billionaire class

  • The awkward silences of digital elites

  • The security apparatus of digital elites

  • Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

  • From gated communities to moated communities

  • Off shore capital and the great inflation

  • Repoliticising tech mythology

  • Digital technology and facilitating corruption

  • An industry for creating dynasties

  • From political engagement to asset protection

  • The collapse of the tech mythology

  • The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

  • The cultural sociology of defensive elites

  • The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

  • The dangerous fantasies of defensive elites

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • The outrage of billionaires about invoking the existence of billionaires

  • Defensive Elites

  • Elites preparing for disaster

  • How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

  • The revenge practices of plutocrats

  • The Technolibertarian King 

  • Defensive Elites

  • The Silicon Valley Narrative

  • What does techno-fascism look like?

  • Uber as a moral project

  • Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

  • The Eschatology of Technology

  • The Elite Roots of the Alt-Right

  • Communism for the few

  • Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

  • The Climate Agenda of Elites

  • The lineaments of techno-fascism

  • Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

  • The affinity between enlightened technocrats and digital elites

  • The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

  • Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

  • The “least resistant personality profile”

  • The evacuation of the social by elites 

  • The coming army of American demagogues

  • Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

  • The radicalisation of reactionaries

  • The Myth of Elite Cosmopolitanism

  • The (American) dreams of defensive elites

  • The expert-celebrity axis and the legitimation of technocracy 

  • The defensive elites of the cultural industries 

  • Biographical Approaches to Studying Digital Capitalism

  • Two documentaries about the super-rich

  • The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

  • Philanthrocapitalism as an assembly device for elites 

  • The growth of elite philanthropy 

  • Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

  • Digital Market Populists as Intellectually Committed Chaos-Merchants

  • Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

  • Elon Musk responds to the satirisation of #DigitalElites in Silicon Valley

  • Billionaires are people, too

  • A partial defence of Gawker’s prurience: the necessity of scrutinising #DigitalElites

  • Donald Trump as an Attentional Entrepeneur

  • ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

  • Funding third-party lawsuits as a tool of defensive elites

  • The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

  • Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

  • The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

  • Defensive Elites: understanding the 0.1%

  • The Self-Understandings of Technocratic Elites

  • Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

  • Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

  • The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

  • ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

  • The Growth of Political Consultancy

  • The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

  • Plutocrats being absurdly defensive: please share any examples you come across!

  • The Defensiveness of Elites

  • A capitalism-friendly version of social mobility

  • The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

  • The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

  • The Political Socialisation of Presidents and Politicians

  • Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

  • Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

  • defensive elites and the actions they’re willing to take

  • The Pathology of the Super-Rich

  • On Techno-Fascism

  • the messianic zeal of Eric Schmidt

  • the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

  • the feudal characteristics of tech firms 

  • The obsessive homogeneity of digital elites 

  • The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

  • The meritocratic elitism of Google 

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

  • the intellectual elitism of Silicon Valley

  • grooming the next generation of the digital elite

  • the political psychology of the super rich

  • the idiocy of defensive elites

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    Mark Carrigan
    Join 5,626 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • Mark Carrigan
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar