What We Do
We are a non-profit knowledge curation platform committed to defending and strengthening a well-informed public sphere. To do that, we strive to unearth, disseminate, and highlight high-quality information – without deepening public dependence on opaque algorithmic solutions pushed by Big Tech. We do so both by offering individual subscribers a “clean” feed of high-quality content – and by working with institutions (think-tanks, foundations, media, companies) who have their own bespoke information needs.
How We Do It
Artisanal automation? Yes, that's us. Curation done right. With humans and machines. Every day, we find hundreds of intellectual gems. The gems that vanish in social media noise. We vet them. Carefully. And you only get to see the best. No noise, no distraction, no clickbait. Only the serious stuff you miss.
1.
Monitor
We start by tracking our sources. Thousands of them. Some famous. Others obscure. All of them fascinating. And we keep adding new ones. Across 60 topics. Climate and AI. Literature and populism. Migration and cities. In depth. You won't be bored.
2.
Review
Our curators step in here. They examine everything. Thoroughly. To find refreshing voices. Voices that go against the grain. On topics that matter. Topics that everyone should be talking about. And certainly will be. For years. But you read it here first.
3.
Curate
That's where we make your syllabus. Yes, yours. Finetune it as you want. Topics, media types, languages. You can tweak it all. Plus, our curators make editions of their own. So that you can stop wasting time on Twitter. Everything you need is here.
Evgeny Morozov
Founder & Publisher
Evgeny is a writer and thinker on the social and political implications of information technology. He is the author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013) and regularly writes for publications around the world. You can reach out to Evgeny here.
Ekaitz Cancela
Editor & Curator
Ekaitz is a journalist and writer based in Madrid and Bilbao. He is the author of Utopías digitales (Verso, 2023) and Despertar del sueño tecnológico (Akal, 2019) and a regular contributor to the Spanish press.
Marco Ferri
General Manager
Marco is a graduate in economics based in Milan. He joined The Syllabus as General Manager in March 2022 after years in consulting. You can reach out to Marco here.
Danny McDonald
Head of Curation
Danny is a linguist and programmer, with special interest in fields such as computational linguistics where the two domains overlap. He was born in Australia but is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Mikalai Maksimchuk
Head of Operations
Nikolai is a graduate of Bard College Berlin based in Warsaw. He has previously handled various data mining projects, including those for Evgeny during the early iterations of The Syllabus.
Fedir Orlov
Lead Developer
Fedir is a graduate in economic cybernetics from Kharkiv National University. He is a Python developer and data analyst with a particular interest in data mining and machine learning.
Alessandra Castellazzi
Researcher & Curator
Alessandra is a literary translator and writer based in Milan. She regularly writes about books and culture for Italian magazines and works as a freelance editor for publishing houses.
Begüm Güven
Editor
Begüm studies psychology and philosophy at Boğaziçi University. She is working on a project on Istanbul history, mainly Istanbul Greeks. Her independent research interests include phenomenology and cognitive science.
Gustavo Lamounier
Researcher & Curator
Gustavo is a political science graduate from Universidade de Brasília, based in Brazil. His areas of interest are decolonial marxism, far-right extremism and the informational ecosystem.
Ivan Krasnov
Editor
Ivan is a writer, translator and musician living in Berlin. He has worked with promoters and record labels in New York, London and Berlin, and is passionate about underground and experimental music. His interests centre around labour movements, global politics, and online virtual communities.
Lela Weigt
Researcher & Curator
Lela is a translator and researcher on contemporary literature, based in Berlin. Her areas of interest are Latin-American literature, cultural memory and migration.
Marc Shkurovich
Editor & Curator
Marc is completing his master’s thesis on crypto and the political economy, sociology, and semiotics of money at Freie Universität Berlin. He has a degree in American Studies from Yale College. Marc previously worked at a bookstore and a publisher of literature in translation.
Pierluigi Bizzini
Researcher & Curator
Pierluigi is a writer, editor and freelance journalist. He writes stories and reportages from the Mediterranean world and from Sicily, where he lives. He is among the authors of Bagliore (2020). He is editor of Alea, an independent cultural anthropology magazine. He is fellow reporter at AlgorithmWatch.