The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk
A video about Elon Musk and the future. Timestamps: 0:00 SpaceX Mars 01:49 Introduction 05:35 Tesla, Ford and A Tale of Two Cars 08:53 Futurism 13:00 The Slow Cancellation of the Future 17:53 Back to the Future 21:31 Muskian Futurism for Whom There s perhaps already a distinct Elon Musk Video Essay genre here on YouTube. Hopefully, though, this takes a different approach to those which are already out there. Rather than focussing on I take a look at why Elon Musk has become such a revered figure in recent years and why so many people have embraced Elon Musk s Loop, Tesla, Hyperloop, Spacex, Mars Mission, Neuralink and other projects. Drawing partly on the work of Mark Fisher and Franco Bifo Birardi, I consider how human perceptions of the future (at least in the advanced capitalist nations) have changed over time. In particular, I m interested in how Elon Musk s rise might be read as a response to what Birardi and Fisher refer to as the Slow Cancellation of the Future during the ascendency of neo
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