Posted Jul 30, 2026 at 4:37 PM UTCEExternal LinkWhat is “Muskism”?A fascinating book review. “Muskism, in reading its subject as more a symptom than a person, doesn’t offer any kind of psychological interpretation of Musk’s worldview, but many of his pronouncements and preoccupations reveal an ontological confusion of the categories of human and machine.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Elizabeth Lopatto
What is “Muskism”?
A fascinating book review. “Muskism, in reading its subject as more a symptom than a person, doesn’t offer any kind of psychological interpretation of Musk’s worldview, but many of his pronouncements and preoccupations reveal an ontological confusion of the categories of human and machine.” [Link: Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell | https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/07/23/space-oddity-muskism-slobodian-tarnoff/?share_key=1f35d9f8512e | The New York Review of Books]
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