Letters and Politics

Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism

Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education

Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism WorksHow Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.

 

Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism 

Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy.  He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review.