Marx earned a master's degree in urban geography from McGill University, researching Silicon Valley and its influence on transportation.[2] He also studied as a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland.[3][4]
Marx began writing about the tech sector in 2015, producing the blog Radical Urbanist.[5][6] As of October 2023[update], Marx's commentary and interviews have appeared in Time Magazine, Wired, NBC News, the MIT Tech Review, Jacobin, and CBC News.[7][8] 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.[9][10] 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"[11] without being "doom-laden or scaremongering."[12]
In 2022, Verso published Marx's Road to Nowhere, a critical study expanding on his Master's work.[13] The book explores Silicon Valley's proposed visions of the transportation sector and how its products often exploit the material conditions of economic structures.[14] 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.[6]
Coverage of Elon Musk
Marx has been playfully described as a "Muskologist" given his consistent critical coverage of Elon Musk.[15][16] 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."[17] 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.[18] The Washington Examiner suggested that Marx holds a "special disdain for Musk’s dreams of a Mars colony."[19]
Selected articles
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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