“I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” — Matthew 10:34
Happy Mothers Day!
Academic and investor Tobias Huber and his collaborator
(who writes the excellent The Diff newsletter) were first on my radar after they published the paper “Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles” on SSRN in October 2019, which made it into Wanting as a citation.I was thrilled when Tobias and Byrne accepted my invitation to present their new essay, Things Hidden: Mimesis, Technology, and Apocalypse, at the 2023 NOVITATE conference in Washington, DC last November. I am grateful to Tobias for flying all the way in from Switzerland to be with us.
Their essay will be part of a book on on technological stagnation and the nature of innovation which will be published by Stripe Press.
Below is the opening of the paper they submitted to the conference, which will give you some taste of what their presentation (which you can watch in the video above) contains. Their motivatin…
