Author Series Event: Martin Gurri

  • April 23, 2019
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Qatar-America Institute, 101 Constitution Ave NW #901e, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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Martin Gurri describes himself as a geopolitical analyst and student of new media and information effects.  He spent many years working in the corner of CIA dedicated to the analysis of open media – from that privileged perch, he watched the global information landscape undergo a transformation so radical as to seem unprecedented in the history of our species.  Wise heads noted that the change was bound to cascade down to all of society, very much including politics.  So indeed it has:  witness the 2016 presidential elections.  After leaving government, Mr. Gurri focused his research on the motive forces powering the transformation.  The child of this labor was The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, first published in electronic form in 2014.  Kind reviewers claimed that the book had predicted the rise of Donald Trump.  It did no such thing, but attentive readers would not have been surprised by the events of 2016.  The new edition of the book, published by Stripe Press, besides being beautiful to look at, includes an indepth essay updating the analysis to include Donald Trump, Brexit, fake news, and “post-truth.”

Mr. Gurri’s blog, “The Fifth Wave,” pursues the themes first elaborated in The Revolt of the Public (at http:// thefifthwave.wordpress.com/).

Martin Gurri was born in Havana, Cuba, and received a master’s degree in history from George Mason University.  He is married and has three children grown and launched into the world:  a non-analytic achievement of which he is proudest in his life.


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