The book Republic of Technologiques, published by Alex Karp in February 2025, is as much a political program as it is a prefiguration of a dystopian future of the West that is taking shape. Palantir, the company he leads and co-founded with Peter Thiel, recently made a synthesis of it public in the form of a manifesto in 22 theses, as a form of assertion of its immeasurable power. This text is published at a time when the USA are embroiled in Iran and diplomatically isolated. “Palantir is accompanying the radicalization of the Trump administration in its warlike adventures, because it lives and thrives on public and military procurement,” emphasizes Olivier Tesquet, co-author of Apocalypse Nerd. A parasite at the heart of the state apparatus Since its creation in 2003 with public funds from the CIA, Palantir claims to address the failures of the state. “It was about creating the company that would have been able to prevent 9/11 with, in the background, a criticism of the public intelligence agencies that failed to detect the weak signals announcing the attacks,” analyzes Valentin Goujon, a sociology doctorate student at Sciences Po’s Medialab. Since then, Palantir has maximized its profits from every crisis. With the Covid pandemic, the company obtained health data from many countries; after the 2015 attacks in France, it signed a contract with the DGSI (the French domestic intelligence service); with the war declared by Donald Trump on migrants, it found itself…
