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
The Spartan-Athenian rivalry is a useful memetic framework for the discussion of biopolitics, as we have seen in the past few weeks. The archetypal attitudes towards women and feminity found … Continue reading The Peloponnesian Paradigm, and why Central Asia matters
Conflict is deeply ingrained in the human mind. Like a cloud of electrically charged particles, it remains potential and shapeless, in an ideal resting state. When it is given ideological … Continue reading Mediatic facts and controlled demolitions from across the Rubicon
If one thing can be said of George Friedman’s book “The Next 100 Years: a forecast for the 21st century”: it is that it’s provocative. It was published in 2009, … Continue reading The worst thing to come out of 2020
