reporting from the outskirts of the Empire
Last year marked record numbers of illegal immigrant arrivals to the Canary Islands, Spain’s Atlantic exclave off the Moroccan coast. More than twenty thousand irregular entries occurred, completely overwhelming the … Continue reading Cybernetics of migration in the Covidian Age
News surfaced a couple weeks ago that the German government offered to pay the Trump administration up to a billion euros in exchange for lifting sanctions on Nord Stream 2. … Continue reading Diesel, gas, and paradox
Sedition is an interesting concept, occupying in most legal systems where it exists a place somewhere beneath open treason and armed rebellion. It means an attempt at overthrowing the government, … Continue reading Tsunamis, pranks and uprisings
After the storming of the Capitol on January 6th, and the consequences that will inevitably befall on those who took part in them, it seems that Internet regulation and censorship … Continue reading Trumpist Crypto-insurrections and pet Hydras
In 1520, Charles Habsburg inherited from his grandfather Maximilian the Holy Roman Empire, which his successors would in turn inherit until the 1700. During their rule as both Holy Roman … Continue reading Smooth and striated space in the decline of Spain: a quasi-theory of Revolution
As we’ve seen in previous articles (here and here), Poland is a country completely split along ideological lines, each of which belonging to a different geopolitical project: Open Society, Great … Continue reading Based Poland III: another exercise in wild speculation
In the last post, which you can find here, we talked about Poland’s political division and how it resonates with the wider world’s dilemmas. Poland’s fit in the European Union … Continue reading Based Poland II: ambitious plans
Poland, like Hungary, has been cultivating for some time a reputation as one of the EU’s baddest, meanest reactionary regimes. Liberals the world over accuse it of being an “illiberal … Continue reading Based Poland: a new set of rules
In his seminal book Clash of Civilizations, Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington described the world as composed of a handful of civilizations, mostly in competition against each other. The … Continue reading Serving two lords in the Third Rome: a quick note on the Nagorno-Karabakh
As a cold, dark, dangerous place, the Arctic is often compared to Outer Space. It is a remote, barren land, mostly unknown, and cannot even be reliably penetrated without the … Continue reading China, Outer Space and the Arctic’s melting point
Kurt Erich Suckert escaped from his boarding school in Tuscany in 1914, at the age of sixteen, to join the French Army in the Great War. He quickly rose to … Continue reading The Law and the Algorithm: Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Curzio Malaparte
The world is holding its breath. The aftermath of the US presidential election has left many questions unanswered. One thing that made it notable was the polarization involved, which was … Continue reading Post-election ripples: Trump’s friends and foes accross the Atlantic
