"Longermism - The "spirit" of digital capitalism" - 17 June 2025

We are very pleased to have won the social scientist Max Schnetker for a lecture in lecture hall 3 (C03-LG1) on Tuesday, 17 June at 18:00.

The lecture is entitled "Longermism - The "spirit" of digital capitalism".

 

Long-termism is the current hype ideology of Silicon Valley. Billionaires such as Elon Musk profess his ideas, philanthropic foundations spend millions on promoting longtermist ideas, and longtermist ideologemes underpin the official corporate policy of companies such as OpenAI. But the fight against the left and trade unions as well as the alliance of tech capital with the Trump administration are also justified with set pieces of longtermist thinking.

The lecture takes a social-scientific look at the ideology of longtermism. Its function in digital capitalism will be analysed. Classics of sociology will be used to explain why this ideology is developing in a fascist direction.

 

More information on the event is also available here in the calendar of events of the University of Erfurt.

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