Paris Marx

Paris Marx is a Canadian technology journalist, author, and critic with articles written for Time, Wired, NBC News, and other publications. Marx published their book, Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso Books) and hosts the Tech Industry-critical podcast Tech Won't Save Us.

Paris Marx
EducationM.A. in Urban Geography from McGill University
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author
Notable workRoad to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
WebsiteParismarx.com

Career

Marx earned a master's degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley and its influence on transportation.[1] They are currently a PhD student at the University of Auckland.[2][3]

Marx began writing about the tech sector in 2015, producing the blog Radical Urbanist.[4][5] As of October 2023, Marx's commentary and interviews have appeared in Time Magazine, Wired, NBC News, the MIT Tech Review, Jacobin, and CBC News.[6][7] Much of the focus of Marx's work explores the "Silicon Valley hype machine" and its greater effects on American culture, while advocating for a greater emphasis on collective methods to tackle issues the Tech Industry attempts to address through privatization.[8][9] Marx's podcast Tech Won't Save Us, started in 2020, provides a leftist perspective on "the underbelly of both the [tech] industry and digital culture"[10] without being "doom-laden or scaremongering."[11]

In 2022, they released their book Road to Nowhere, a critical study expanding on their Master's work.[12] The book explores Silicon Valley's proposed visions of the transportation sector and how its products often exploit the material conditions of economic structures.[13] Marx ultimately argues that viewing technology as the sole solution for inner-city traffic and climate change in turn does little to help society as a whole.[5]

Coverage of Elon Musk

Marx has been playfully described as a "Muskologist" given their consistent critical coverage of Elon Musk.[14][15] Their Time article argued "Musk is someone whose vision doesn’t align with what’s best for humanity."[16] Their most recent work fits into a "spate of negative press about Musk" that the SFist linked to a "collective rethinking" of how to report on the billionaire.[17] The Washington Examiner opined that Marx holds a "special disdain for Musk’s dreams of a Mars colony."[18]

Selected articles

Marx, Paris (August 8, 2022) "Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him". Time Magazine.

References
  1. "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation with Paris Marx | Center for Urban and Regional Analysis". cura.osu.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  2. "Marx, Paris". Verso. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  3. "Paris Marx". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. "Paris Marx". Ricochet. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  5. Jones, Stephen. "Don't trust 'narcissistic, self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport, author says". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  6. "Paris Marx | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  7. "Paris Marx | Bookshop". Bookshop.
  8. Hayes, Kelly (2023-08-03). "AI Won't Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine". Truthout. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  9. Jones, Stephen. "Don't trust 'narcissistic, self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport, author says". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  10. "The 22 best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All')". Mashable. 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  11. Dibdin, Emma (2023-06-03). "6 Podcasts to Make Sense of A.I." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  12. "The future of transportation beyond Silicon Valley: interview with Paris Marx". 2022-08-18. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  13. "Marx Paris, Podcast Host, "Tech Won't Save Us"". McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  14. Bleyer-Simon, Konrad. "Why the Transport Visions of Tech Billionaires are a Dead End".
  15. "Road to Nowhere: a Letter from the Editor". Verso. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  16. "Beyond Elon Musk: Why humanity should think twice before buying into his vision of the future". Texas Standard. 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  17. "Musk Backlash Continues With Time Magazine Calling Out Hyperloop Idea as Spoiler For High-Speed Rail". SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
  18. "Elon Musk's vision for the future is a positive one". Washington Examiner. 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2023-10-23.
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