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25. The Ideology of Silicon Valley vs the Idea of Democracy – with Adrian Daub

Is This Democracy

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The Intellectual History of Silicon Valley

There's a specific universe of writers and thinkers that seem to play a prominent role in Silicon Valley. Some are the usual suspects, like Ayn Rand or René Girard. One thing they all have in common is they cannot be safely situated within the university. And then the other one is, it can't be cool, I think. It has to be so uncool that it's cool again.

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