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I view myself as an artist.
—Alex Karp, a16z American Dynamism Summit, Washington, DC, March 2026
IN RECENT YEARS “defense tech” has moved from the quiet edge of venture capital portfolios to something closer to the industry’s prin...
The rise of defense tech as a dominant force in venture capital is not just a financial shift but a cultural one, where the aesthetics of militarism are being repackaged as avant-garde and transgressive. This movement draws heavily from early 20th-century artistic tropes, particularly Italian Futurism, which celebrated speed, violence, and technological dominance. Figures like Marc Andreessen and Alex Karp are leveraging these historical references to frame defense tech as a moral and aesthetic ...