What if real power was no longer wielded in ballot boxes or parliaments, but in lines of code, digital infrastructures and the messianic dreams of Silicon Valley? In their hard-hitting essay, Apocalypse Nerds, journalists Nastasia Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet analyze the emergence of a new regime of authority they call technofascism: a distributed, opaque form of power, where the state reprograms itself like a start-up and visionary billionaires – Musk, Thiel, Vance, Yarvin – sketch out the contours of an anti-democratic future.

Combining journalistic investigation and philosophical reflection, the authors map this shift from the political to the technological, and highlight a disturbing recomposition of the imaginary of power. Far from a science-fiction dystopia, Apocalypse Nerds reveals a present already in progress, where the old tension between Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment, democracy and authoritarianism, emancipation and selection, is replayed.

We invite you to come and talk to Nastasia Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet about this captivating investigation, which questions our relationship with technology, democracy and the future.

The meeting will take place under the Bains yurt, free admission.