The Fracturing Hegemon: Strategic Hedging, Infrastructural Power, and the Metabolism of Late Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🌍 Politics as spectacle blurs into performance, while repair & craft emerge as quiet acts of resistance. Our future may hinge less on grand stages than on small workshops—where durability is forged against the throwaway logic of modernity. It is spectacle or repair? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

In a world racing ahead with AI and megaprojects, the quiet act of repair—restoring fountains, mending clothes, reviving art—reminds us that resilience lies in preservation as much as acceleration. The real challenge: can we weave care into progress? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Cities are under siege yet remain democracy’s frontline. As national politics collapses into spectacle & apathy, mayors, repair schemes & cultural projects keep agency alive. The future may be stitched not in parliaments but in neighborhoods. #UrbanPolitics open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Political Spectacle, Technological Disruption, and the Cultural Impulse to Mend open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Dubai's Slavic Culinary Exile, the Politicization of Late-Night Satire, and AI's Geopolitical Mirage in a Disjunctive World Order open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Global Paradoxes: The Politics of Plenty, the Peril of AI Governance, and the Price of Culture open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Demographics as Destiny, Corporate Cultures Under Siege, and Rituals of Resilience: Fragments from a Liquid Modern World open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Democracy faces an Anthropocene test 🌍 From Ethiopia’s dam disputes to Gen Z protests, from AI disruption to populist backlashes—institutions strain under climate, culture & tech shocks. The question: can democracies adapt to act in concert at planetary scale? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Gen Z protests, AI algorithms shaping truth, trade wars, and cultural diplomacy—today’s crises aren’t isolated. They reveal democracy under strain, reshaped by youth revolt, black-box tech, and multipolar rivalries. The question: not if democracy survives. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Navigating Democracy's Contemporary Malaise in Everyday Life, Performance Politics, and the Political Economy of Insecurity open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Spectacular Capitalism: Privatized Cultural Authority, AI and Technological Sovereignty, Urban Resilience and Infrastructural Precarity open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Economic shifts, defense deals, migration battles, and museum struggles all reveal the same question: who controls the spaces—urban, digital, cultural—we live in? The fight for spatial democracy is about making shade, memory & dignity collective rights, not luxuries open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Museums, markets, and media aren’t just cultural sideshows—they’re frontline battlegrounds. From Van Gogh’s funding plea to Japan’s threatened modernist icons, what we choose to preserve (or let decay) reveals our politics as much as our art. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Shade, screens, and stories aren’t trivial. 🌍 They reveal how power shapes daily life: who gets comfort in heat, who controls our attention, and whose histories are preserved. Infrastructure—physical or digital—is never neutral. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Global Narratives: Urban Shadows, Cultural Custodianship, and the Interplay of Power in a Warming World open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

From looted art vanishing in Argentina to climate alliances collapsing, deportees rerouted abroad, institutions crack under pressure. Yet memory work, cultural revivals, civic commons persist. We’re living Gramsci’s interregnum: the old decays, the new is contested open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

From Greenland’s minerals to AI jobs, tariffs, and stolen art—today’s crises all converge on one truth: power is reorganized through place. Economy, culture, and security collide in the spaces we fight to control. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🌍 From Seattle’s nudist beach battles to Dutch coalitions collapsing & AI trade wars, the thread is the same: struggles over who controls bodies, borders & bytes. What look like local skirmishes reveal a deeper crisis of democracy, culture & power. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

The Fenced-In World: How Contested Spaces, Economic Walls, and Digital Divides Are Reshaping Sovereignty open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Art market crashes, overtourism in Venice, COP30’s fragilities — different symptoms of the same crisis: when space itself is commodified, culture, cities, and climate all buckle. The challenge isn’t growth, but building commons and justice into the spaces we live. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

From cameras in Mexico City to COP30 in Belém, from AI rivalries to migration politics—the thread is clear: infrastructures of power aren’t neutral. They decide who belongs, who governs, who thrives. The task is making them serve publics, not just states or markets. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🇮🇹 Venice’s Poveglia shows locals reclaiming space from tourist capitalism—yet elsewhere, AI surveillance turns whole cities into panopticons. Our era oscillates between community-led commons and algorithmic control. The question: which will scale? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

The Archipelago of Contradictions, Contemporary Global Governance and the Crisis of Spatial Capital open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Museums as battlegrounds, AI as techno-feudalism, trade as weapon, cities as quiet sites of resistance — today’s crises aren’t isolated shocks but cascading fractures of “transition capitalism.” Within them lie seeds of new civic and cultural futures. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🪙AI reshapes jobs, EVs collide with trade wars, energy shifts strain climate goals, and culture races to monetize attention. Tech isn’t destiny—it’s a choice: disruption can entrench inequality or be steered toward equity and sustainability. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🚎From 100-hour hustle myths to the revival of trolley bags, today’s “burnout society” shows how late capitalism reshapes both work and daily life. What look like small shifts—productivity metrics, AI precarity, walkable cities—are symptoms of a larger transformation open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

Post-Work Strains, AI Disruptions, and Cultural Frictions: Mapping the Contours of Transition Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🗺️💱📱🤖 From Africa’s push to redraw the world map to Argentina’s inverted tourism flows, Dubai’s app-based panopticon, and AI’s bubble-sublime paradox — today’s headlines show how symbols, money, order, and tech are reshaping power and everyday life. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🌍 Late-liberal paradox: order is now performed (Trump’s golf diplomacy, Dubai’s “snitch apps”), currencies invert class divides (Argentines abroad, exclusion at home), and AI promises collide with precarity. A world improvising through spectacle, inequality & code. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🎪From dog routes in Helsinki to canceled Latino festivals in the U.S., culture today lives between renewal and repression. Everyday rituals can heal belonging — but when civic space shrinks, so does democracy itself. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🛩️From Arctic summits in airport lounges to festivals canceled by fear, from “cleanup” politics to crypto regulation—our world runs on spectacle, sovereignty, and platforms. The question isn’t if rules exist, but who scripts them—and for whose benefit. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🌍 Climate shocks, tariff wars & tech races aren’t separate stories — they’re threads of one fabric. Each disruption reshapes who adapts, who loses & who profits. Without redistribution & resilience, volatility widens inequality. Empire adapts. The question: will we? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

The Contemporary Reordering: How Climate, Culture, and Capital Are Reshaping Our World open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

🍟Tariffs, chips, AI, public media, even art fights — they’re not separate stories. They’re about who controls attention, information & innovation. Democracy depends on treating these as public goods, not market byproducts. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...

📻🎭🌆🪞 From defunded radio to neon nationalism, from “ugly” mermaids to curated perfection—our infrastructures of meaning are being remade. The question: will they sustain democracy, or just decorate its decline? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...