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“Don’t Look Up” and political virtualism
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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Bruno Maçães
Race and wokeness. The world of pure experience
The logic of wokeness seems to me to be the logic of experience.
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Only crypto is money. The new monetary order
Money today is programmable.
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Russia, Destruktion and the World of Pozsar
Sergey Karaganov, a foreign policy strategist close to the Kremlin, has called the Putin doctrine “constructive destruction.” As Karaganov puts it…
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Why did America fail in Afghanistan? Time for a reckoning
One thing that immediately strikes you in Kabul: where are the Americans?
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Eurasia as deep structure: rule of the algorithm
Imagine you were using a computer simulation of world politics with a single input: the physical map of the world, the familiar shape of a large…
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Is 2021 the year of NFTs? A question in the theory of art, decentralized media and introducing my first NFT
Remember when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to a wall with a piece of duct tape?
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The Great Acceleration
The beginning of the second year of the pandemic has brought the troubling novelty of variants potentially more infectious and carrying the threat that…
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What is at stake in the submarines crisis
You can of course believe that what happened was that Australia was unhappy with the contract with French company Naval Group and looked for an…
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Some further notes on decoupling and the new geopolitics
Confusion continues to reign on the issue of decoupling.
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Bruno Maçães
Biden’s Philosophy of “As If” How transformational is Bidenomics? We have become virtual reality avatars: the revolution, perhaps, has begun
German philosopher Hans Vaihinger created the term “as if” to refer to a system of thought where ideas are not taken as true in themselves but merely…
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Biden, India, Turkey: some notes on a new foreign policy
It was a weekend full of interesting developments for those trying to anticipate the direction of American foreign policy under the new administration:
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