Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto and the Project of Silicon Valley

Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. In his review of Malcolm Harris’s book, PALO ALTO: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORLD, the author Jonathan Lethem says he first met Harris in 2011 in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street.  He tracks Harris’s trajectory after Occupy, during which time Harris became a journalist writing for outlets such as The New Inquiry, Jacobin, The Nation and The New Republic. Lethem says Harris became a sort of generational spokesperson with his 2017 book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials, which was then followed in 2020 with a collection of essays that Lethem says positioned Harris as “a theorist of a robust, nonsectarian 21st-century Marxism.” Harris’s latest book is a history of Palo Alto, which looks at the project of Silicon Valley through that lens.  A transcript is forthcoming. The post Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto and the Project of Silicon Valley appeared first on Tech Policy Press.Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto and the Project of Silicon Valley