The Disruption Con — Why Tech’s Favorite Buzzword is Nonsense

Last week, an excerpt from What Tech Calls Thinking appeared in The Guardian as a longread. It deals with the strange career of the concept of “disruption” — from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, via Joseph Schumpeter to the M&A gurus of the 80s and 90s. The full chapter in the book has more Hegel and Benjamin, so if that’s something you’re after, I have a book to sell you.