Paris Marx

Marx earned a master's degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley and its influence on transportation.{{Cite web |title=Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation with Paris Marx {{!}} Center for Urban and Regional Analysis |url=https://cura.osu.edu/events/road-nowhere-what-silicon-valley-gets-wrong-about-future-transportation-paris-marx |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=cura.osu.edu |language=en}} He also studied as a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland.{{Cite web |title=Marx, Paris |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/marx-paris |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=Verso |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Paris Marx |url=https://lithub.com/author/parismarx/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}

Marx began writing about the tech sector in 2015, producing the blog Radical Urbanist.{{Cite web |title=Paris Marx |url=https://ricochet.media/en/contributors/631 |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=Ricochet}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Stephen |title=Don't trust 'narcissistic, self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport, author says |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/dont-trust-billionaires-like-musk-to-improve-transport-paris-marx-2022-8 |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} {{As of|2023|October}}, Marx's commentary and interviews have appeared in Time Magazine, Wired, NBC News, the MIT Tech Review, Jacobin, and CBC News.{{Cite web |title=Paris Marx {{!}} Muck Rack |url=https://muckrack.com/parismarx |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=muckrack.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Paris Marx {{!}} Bookshop |url=https://bookshop.org/shop/parismarx |website=Bookshop}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Hayes |first=Kelly |date=2023-08-03 |title=AI Won’t Overthrow Us, But It Will Optimize the Capitalist Death Machine |url=https://truthout.org/audio/ai-wont-overthrow-us-but-it-will-optimize-the-capitalist-death-machine/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Stephen |title=Don't trust 'narcissistic, self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport, author says |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/dont-trust-billionaires-like-musk-to-improve-transport-paris-marx-2022-8 |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}} 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"{{Cite web |date=2022-05-28 |title=The 22 best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All') |url=https://mashable.com/article/best-tech-podcasts-reply-all-alternatives |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=Mashable |language=en}} without being "doom-laden or scaremongering."{{Cite news |last=Dibdin |first=Emma |date=2023-06-03 |title=6 Podcasts to Make Sense of A.I. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/arts/artificial-intelligence-podcasts.html |access-date=2023-10-13 |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2022, Verso published Marx's Road to Nowhere, a critical study expanding on his Master's work.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-18 |title=The future of transportation beyond Silicon Valley: interview with Paris Marx |url=https://digilabour.com.br/en/the-future-of-transportation-beyond-silicon-valley-interview-with-paris-marx/ |access-date=2023-05-28 |language=en-US}} The book explores Silicon Valley's proposed visions of the transportation sector and how its products often exploit the material conditions of economic structures.{{Cite web |title=Marx Paris, Podcast Host, "Tech Won't Save Us" |url=https://spark.mcmaster.ca/people/marx-paris |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences |language=en}} 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.

Marx has been playfully described as a "Muskologist" given his consistent critical coverage of Elon Musk.{{Cite web |last=Bleyer-Simon |first=Konrad |title=Why the Transport Visions of Tech Billionaires are a Dead End |url=https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-the-transport-visions-of-tech-billionaires-are-a-dead-end/}}{{Cite web |title=Road to Nowhere: a Letter from the Editor |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5375-letter-from-the-editor-road-to-nowhere |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Verso |language=en}} His Time article "Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him" argues that Musk's "vision doesn’t align with what’s best for humanity."{{Cite web |date=2022-08-19 |title=Beyond Elon Musk: Why humanity should think twice before buying into his vision of the future |url=https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/beyond-elon-musk-why-humanity-should-think-twice-before-buying-into-his-vision-of-the-future/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Texas Standard |language=en-US}} Much of Marx's 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.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-11 |title=Musk Backlash Continues With Time Magazine Calling Out Hyperloop Idea as Spoiler For High-Speed Rail |url=https://sfist.com/2022/08/11/musk-backlash-continues-with-time-magazine-calling-out-hyperloop-idea-as-spoiler-for-high-speed-rail/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports |language=en}} The Washington Examiner suggested that Marx holds a "special disdain for Musk’s dreams of a Mars colony."{{Cite web |date=2022-08-30 |title=Elon Musk's vision for the future is a positive one |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/elon-musks-vision-for-the-future-is-a-positive-one |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}}

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

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