The Nerd Reich
Autor Gil Duránen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 aug 2026
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance.
When Silicon Valley says it is ‘‘moving fast and breaking things,’’ the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.
Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Durán traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. He introduces its modern apostles—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, and Elon Musk—and shows how the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the algorithmic propaganda of social media.
The Nerd Reich explains the origins, strategies, and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy for the first time. From San Francisco’s weaponized elections and secret billionaire projects to the White House, Durán exposes how the world’s richest men are building a new political order.
The Nerd Reich is more than a hidden history, it’s an urgent warning: democracy is being dismantled not by coups or tanks, but by code, capital, and the illusion of innovation. Durán insists there is still time to fight back—if we act now.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781668221402
ISBN-10: 1668221403
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 158 x 233 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 1668221403
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 158 x 233 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Notă biografică
Gil Durán was born in Tulare, California, in 1976. The grandson of Mexican immigrant farmworkers, he got his first taste of work in the fields, but took an interest in journalism after winning the local newspaper’s “My Mom Is the Best” contest in the fifth grade. In the tenth grade, his family moved from California to Kentucky, where he dropped out of high school for a year, then returned and befriended an English teacher who encouraged him to apply to college. He graduated DePauw University in 1998 and started his journalism career at the San Jose Mercury News. As the newspaper industry hit turbulence, he pivoted to politics and spent ten years as an advisor to politicians including Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Kamala Harris. In 2018, he returned to journalism as California opinion editor of The Sacramento Bee, and then became editorial page editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Now an independent journalist, he publishes two newsletters: The Nerd Reich, focused on extremist tech politics, and FrameLab, focused on political language.
Recenzii
‘Durán, a journalist and former political adviser, lays out the narrative in exacting detail, outlining the connections between these men (and it is all men) and the origins of their often deeply weird beliefs, many of which view everyone outside their circle or opposed to their agenda as expendable’
‘A fantastically unputdownable must-read . . . Durán documents his case persuasively . . . He’s done his homework, researched and demonstrated the connections, and now raises an urgent alarm to recognise how at risk democracy is’
'Gil Durán is an essential voice on this technofascist moment – and where it comes from and where we are going'
'A clear and compelling account of the threats posed by technofascism to democracies everywhere'
'Reader take note: Gil Durán is a deep, thoughtful and expansive observer of events that shape the current and future of our American democracy'
'The Nerd Reich is a clarion warning about the rise of techno-fascist sociopaths who seek to profit off of our collective misery. In clear, compelling and meticulously researched detail, Gil Durán sounds the alarm about this incestuous cabal of broligarchs. He brings the receipts and the righteous rage'
‘A fantastically unputdownable must-read . . . Durán documents his case persuasively . . . He’s done his homework, researched and demonstrated the connections, and now raises an urgent alarm to recognise how at risk democracy is’
'Gil Durán is an essential voice on this technofascist moment – and where it comes from and where we are going'
'A clear and compelling account of the threats posed by technofascism to democracies everywhere'
'Reader take note: Gil Durán is a deep, thoughtful and expansive observer of events that shape the current and future of our American democracy'
'The Nerd Reich is a clarion warning about the rise of techno-fascist sociopaths who seek to profit off of our collective misery. In clear, compelling and meticulously researched detail, Gil Durán sounds the alarm about this incestuous cabal of broligarchs. He brings the receipts and the righteous rage'
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An urgent exposé of how Silicon Valley’s billionaire elite are waging a global campaign to dismantle democracy and replace it with corporate, tech-driven rule.
An urgent exposé of how Silicon Valley’s billionaire elite are waging a global campaign to dismantle democracy and replace it with corporate, tech-driven rule.