hollow temples of culture
culture is a peculiar entity—simultaneously omnipresent and elusive, invoked to justify, to sanctify, to condemn. it is, at once, the […]
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between empire and erasure: the politics of visibility in gaza and new york
the empire that pretends it isn’t there are empires that rule with grandeur and open spectacle, their power etched in
the ethics of aesthetics, the aesthetics of ethics: on the fragile boundaries of modernity
ethics, we are told, is the last refuge of a world spinning into chaos. when law fails, when institutions crumble,
the Paradox of Progress: Why Speed is Making Us Stuck
We live in a world that moves at breakneck speed. Technology advances faster than we can keep up with, economies
the empire never left: how conquest mutates into governance
conquest is supposed to be a momentary affair, a violent disruption after which governance restores order. yet, in the long
the fragile architecture of ideas: how ideologies shape and distort reality
modernity has gifted us many illusions, but perhaps none as persistent as the belief that ideas govern the world. the
the empire of belief: how religion became the battlefield of power
religion is often spoken of in hushed tones, as if it were some timeless, immovable force that simply exists. but
seeing through empire: x-rays, control, and the violence of vision
let’s begin with a simple question: what is an empire if not an elaborate apparatus for making people visible in
suicide and society: the unbearable weight of meaning
suicide, we are told, is a deeply personal act. it is a manifestation of inner torment, a tragic endpoint of
the myth of biological laws: why life defies our need for order
science has always been obsessed with laws. newtonian physics, maxwell’s equations, even einstein’s elegant formulations—all these give us the illusion