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.
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.
Ivan Krasnov
Operations Manager
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 center around labor movements, global politics, and online virtual communities.
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.
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.
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 the editor of Alea, an independent cultural anthropology magazine. He is a fellow reporter at AlgorithmWatch.
Genevieve Mendoza
Tech Developer
Genevieve is a graduate in mathematics based in New York City. She is interested in computational statistics and works on a variety of programming and data analysis tasks for the Syllabus.
Ryan Breeden
Editor & Curator
Ryan is a writer and translator based in Vancouver. He holds a Master of Arts in History from Simon Fraser University. His areas of interest include intellectual history, political economy, and critical theory.
Emanuel Frazão
Developer
Emanuel is a mathematician turned software engineer, and enjoys everything in between, plus some. He is based in Lisbon and works for the Syllabus as a general-purpose developer.