{"id":7251,"date":"2025-08-30T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/event\/philo-aux-bains-how-technofascists-took-power\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:54:23","slug":"philo-aux-bains-how-technofascists-took-power","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/event\/philo-aux-bains-how-technofascists-took-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Philo aux Bains: How technofascists took power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"908\">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, <em data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"552\">Apocalypse Nerds<\/em>, journalists Nastasia Hadjadji and Olivier Tesquet analyze the emergence of a new regime of authority they call <strong data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"699\">technofascism<\/strong>: a distributed, opaque form of power, where the state reprograms itself like a start-up and visionary billionaires &#8211; Musk, Thiel, Vance, Yarvin &#8211; sketch out the contours of an anti-democratic future. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1343\">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, <em data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1186\">Apocalypse Nerds<\/em> reveals a present already in progress, where the old tension between Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment, democracy and authoritarianism, emancipation and selection, is replayed. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1537\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1537\">The meeting will take place under the Bains yurt, free admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if real power was no longer wielded in ballot  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7249,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[88],"class_list":["post-7251","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-philo-en","cat_philo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}