{"product_id":"muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-9780063484320b","title":"Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA NEW YORKER AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e Best Book of Summer 2026 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eKirkus \u003c\/span\u003eMost Anticipated Nonfiction Book of Spring 2026 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/span\u003e Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003eargues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect, the more he owns you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFordism \u003c\/span\u003edefined the capitalism of the twentieth century, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003emay define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003esells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro-natalist but anti-immigrant, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy, where to be “free” means to serve a Technoking. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003eisn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. To read \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003eis to understand the machinery that made the man, and the world he’s making next, based on his philosophy of power in the spheres of:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilicon Valley: A sharp analysis of Elon Musk as more than a tech CEO, introducing “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism\u003c\/span\u003e” as a new Silicon Valley paradigm shaping artificial intelligence, startups, and 21st-century capitalism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBig Tech, AI \u0026amp; the Future of Capitalism: Examines Tesla, SpaceX, and digital platforms through concepts like techno-sovereignty, automation, and “state symbiosis,” revealing how Big Tech is restructuring markets, innovation, and economic power.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeopolitics, Power \u0026amp; the Tech Billionaire Era: Explores how Musk’s companies influence global politics, infrastructure, and governance—from satellite networks to energy systems—showing how private tech power is reshaping international relations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“An illuminating book that examines where Mr. Musk came from and the episodes that shaped his worldview. In many ways it is the inverse of Walter Isaacson’s authorised biography. . . . the authors provide a portrait of his psyche that is arguably more revealing. . . . the resulting book is, you might say, a Musk-read.” –\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMuskism \u003c\/span\u003ecuts straight to the core of the man and the moment, explaining how a mercurial, conspiracy-prone, vicious bastard can inspire loyalty and billions in other peoples' money, and the nightmare world he wants to build with those billions.\" –Cory Doctorow, author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEnshittification\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42879050350672,"sku":"9780063484320B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063484320-l.jpg?v=1787928601","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-9780063484320b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}