Thinker
Evgeny Morozov
Who
Belarusian-origin tech critic. Author, founder of The Syllabus.
Core Idea
"Tech solutionism" — the ideology that every social and political problem has a technological fix, and that this belief is itself politically dangerous. Also: digital freedom as a Western ideological export that can be weaponized.
Key Works
- The Net Delusion (2011)
- To Save Everything, Click Here (2013)
Relevance
His critique of technology as neutral infrastructure is the theoretical anchor for "design without political awareness is complicity." When you say that design is never neutral, Morozov is the intellectual backing. His skepticism of solutionism also directly supports your position on AI — tools do not solve political problems, people operating in political contexts do.
Connected To
- Zeynep Tufekci — both analyze how platform architecture shapes political behavior
- Ron Deibert — digital repression as the dark side of solutionism's blind spots
- Lawrence Lessig — code as political architecture, extends the "not neutral" argument
- Byung-Chul Han — Han's psychopolitics is what solutionism enables downstream
- Timothy Snyder — tech optimism as one vector through which tyranny normalizes
