What We Are Reading Today: Muskism

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Updated 01 June 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Muskism

Authors: Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff

In “Muskism,” Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff show how the language of crisis and emergency is used to invoke a less human where humans are purged from the productive process and, through social media and video games, merged with the machine.

If you enter, this book warns, you will grind and you will live in the shadow of one man – but the rewards could be priceless and the alternative might be extinction.