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One tries to make sense of contemporary geopolitics and a pattern emerges. The two critical developments in recent years were the trade and technology…
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The New Yorker has a new essay on the metaphysics of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The essay does not deal with metaphysics at all, being a lot more…
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Some notes: The historical significance of the pandemic is the way it introduces a wholly new technological equation. There were past ages when…
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The Financial Times has a piece up on how Putin is again lambasting against colour revolutions and promising to keep the Russian near abroad free of…
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I was in Kazakhstan a month ago and had the opportunity to meet a number of current and former officials. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I have to report I…
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The fourth film of the Matrix franchise, Matrix Resurrections, begins with the suggestive gambit that the first three films were actually a popular…
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At the beginning of Don’t Look Up, the two scientists played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio quickly discover the comet and calculate its…
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I could never see myself as belonging to the left. If one passion animates my political thinking that is the belief in an open, unpredictable future…
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The metaverse could become the new arena for global competition. Much has been written about a clash of titans between Facebook and Microsoft to decide…
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I had an interesting conversation on the future of Europe with a European politician recently (name withdrawn because it is irrelevant and because I…
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It is hardly a coincidence that the metaverse as a practical project emerged out of the experience of the pandemic. The great migration to digital…
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My book History Has Begun traces the history of a certain political philosophy I argue was born and developed in the American republic, before turning…
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