KdM in IM-1776
A Review of Alex Karp & Nicholas Zamiska’s “The Technological Republic”
As your humble neighborhood Substack correspondent, whose subscribership only very recently crested past the three-digit number (not that we would ever worship the number; or, perhaps, the Number is all we should worship), I was gobsmacked to be asked by a publication of the likes of IM-1776 if I would write for them a review of Alex Karp’s debut book in English, co-authored with his long-time Palantir advisor Nicholas Zamiska, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. After picking myself up off the floor, I said yes, and readied myself for the challenge.
Gratitude to IM-1776 for their editorial support, encouragement, and unending patience. (This piece originally landed at 11,000 words.)
Click through here:
“The Word Is Not Enough: Palantir and the Language of Creation”
Other writings of mine on the Karpverse:
Karpverse-adjacent: “Mr. Thiel’s Appeal”
A clouded dream on an earthly night
Hangs upon the crescent moon
A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
— Loreena McKennitt, “The Mystic’s Dream”
Thank you for your important work in giving this book a deeper consideration. Thanks too to your work covering Karps thesis as I would not have found it accessible, and therefore not have taken deeper stock of my own rigid moral construction
And missed what I think is a postmodern diamond in the rough