Pepe Bellin

Pepe Bellin

The End of Elon Musk: Time to Think Again

Based on post-industrial and post-capitalist ideas, the Californian ideology represented the spirit of optimism of the young internet in the 1990s. Knowledge-based economies and the empowerment of individuals would dissolve existing structures of power and herald the end of large corporations and governments (Barbrook and Cameron 1996). Thirty years later, we know that this optimistic vision did not come true.…

Platform Monarchy: Elon Musk and the Future of Twitter

“Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter” read the headline in the New York Times at the end of last week, referring to the public discourse surrounding Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform Twitter [1]. Known as a controversial entrepreneur, Musk fired several high-level executives shortly after the deal was completed, further fuelling the debate over…