Technomonarchs – book presentation

Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 11.30-13.00
Sala Misiti – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

Alessandro Mulieri, directeur de recherche at the CNRS in France, will present his latest book “Technomonarchs – The ideologues of the new right attacking democracy”, published by Donzelli, in dialogue with researchers Marco Cellini (CNR-IRPPS) and Tommaso Visone (Link University, CNR-IRPPS), and with journalist Francesca De Benedetti (Il Domani), moderated by Prof. Daniele Archibugi (Mercatorum, CNR-IRPPS).

We have entered the era of technomonarchs. A new reactionary revolution, conceived between Silicon Valley and American right-wing intellectual circles and based on sophisticated surveillance and control technologies, has today become a political program in Washington. Its protagonists are tech entrepreneurs, ideologues, and politicians driven by a worldview based on the return to archaic ideas of inequality, natural hierarchy, and absolute monarchy. Their goal? The end of democracy. (Donzelli editore book profile)