Vital Frontiers: Myth and the New Right in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley leaders use stories of apocalypse, new frontiers, and even a “new human” to promote radical futures that resonate with the new right. This project studies these stories as myths that offer hope and answers to existential questions and fears. It asks why they succeed, how they mobilize collective desire, and how they shape concrete political visions. As a case study, the project contributes to a broader research line that examines how myth can critique authoritarian visions and support more democratic and open futures.
About Carmen Dege
Dege received a PhD in Political Theory from Yale University in 2019. Before coming to Radboud in January 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute at NYU as well as the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
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