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The Currents of Global Disorder: Economic Turbulence, Social Shifts, and Narrative Investments open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Currents of Global Disorder: Economic Turbulence, Social Shifts, and Narrative Investments
From the Open Access Blog.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Currents of Global Disorder: Economic Turbulence, Social Shifts, and Narrative Investments open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
AI idols, stolen jewels, climate “optimism,” and craft revivals—2025’s polycrisis isn’t collapse but conversion: from politics to management, from aura to algorithm. The challenge now is to make meaning in the machine’s shadow. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
AI idols, stolen jewels, climate “optimism,” and craft revivals—2025’s polycrisis isn’t collapse but conversion: from politics to management, from aura to algorithm. The challenge now is to make meaning in the machine’s shadow. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Tariffs, sanctions, AI laws, and labor shifts reveal a world rewriting its code: states act like startups, markets like weapons, and crafts like resistance. The 2025 polycrisis isn’t chaos—it’s a reboot in progress. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tariffs, sanctions, AI laws, and labor shifts reveal a world rewriting its code: states act like startups, markets like weapons, and crafts like resistance. The 2025 polycrisis isn’t chaos—it’s a reboot in progress. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Markets boom, states glitch, and art vanishes in daylight. The week’s polycrisis shows power shifting from parliaments to platforms, from borders to supply chains. We’re not watching collapse—we’re watching code rewrite the world in real time. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Markets boom, states glitch, and art vanishes in daylight. The week’s polycrisis shows power shifting from parliaments to platforms, from borders to supply chains. We’re not watching collapse—we’re watching code rewrite the world in real time. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography
From the Open Economics Blog.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Louvre Heist, the Algorithmic Acceleration, and the Fraying Global Order: Charting the Polycrisis Cartography open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Institutions are hollowing, not collapsing: democracies erode by habit, not coup; data centers become new empires; borders harden as wealth walls rise. Inequality isn’t a glitch—it’s the system’s design. The question now is who still belongs when it breaks. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State
From the Open Culture Blog,
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October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Institutions are hollowing, not collapsing: democracies erode by habit, not coup; data centers become new empires; borders harden as wealth walls rise. Inequality isn’t a glitch—it’s the system’s design. The question now is who still belongs when it breaks. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
From meme-fueled revolts to luxury-as-meaning, trade wars to loneliness epidemics, our age is one of connection without cohesion. Gen Z topples regimes, AI builds empires, we live longer but trust less. How to turn virality into durability, spectacle into structure? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State
From the Open Culture Blog,
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October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
From meme-fueled revolts to luxury-as-meaning, trade wars to loneliness epidemics, our age is one of connection without cohesion. Gen Z topples regimes, AI builds empires, we live longer but trust less. How to turn virality into durability, spectacle into structure? open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
🌍 From draft lotteries to data centers, Louvre heists to AI hype, 2025 reveals a world where performance replaces practice and spectacle stands in for sovereignty. Yet amid the noise, meaning endures—in craft, care, the stubborn human will to make things that last. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State
From the Open Culture Blog,
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October 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌍 From draft lotteries to data centers, Louvre heists to AI hype, 2025 reveals a world where performance replaces practice and spectacle stands in for sovereignty. Yet amid the noise, meaning endures—in craft, care, the stubborn human will to make things that last. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State
From the Open Culture Blog,
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October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Crisis of Legitimate Force: Conscription, Sovereignty, and the Modern State open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
🌍 We’re living in an age of dazzling scaffolds and fragile foundations—AI booms built on rare earths, peace staged as spectacle, craft surviving as quiet resistance. The future won’t hinge on grand systems, but on our ability to make meaning & make things that last. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Runways, Rituals, and Rare Earths: Infrastructure Fragility, Biometric Mobility, and the Geopolitics of AI
From the Open Access Blog.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🌍 We’re living in an age of dazzling scaffolds and fragile foundations—AI booms built on rare earths, peace staged as spectacle, craft surviving as quiet resistance. The future won’t hinge on grand systems, but on our ability to make meaning & make things that last. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Runways, Rituals, and Rare Earths: Infrastructure Fragility, Biometric Mobility, and the Geopolitics of AI open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Runways, Rituals, and Rare Earths: Infrastructure Fragility, Biometric Mobility, and the Geopolitics of AI
From the Open Access Blog.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Runways, Rituals, and Rare Earths: Infrastructure Fragility, Biometric Mobility, and the Geopolitics of AI open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
🔥 Gold breaks records, democracies wobble, and AI eats its own tail—yet the world keeps making, trading, enduring. Maybe resilience isn’t resistance or optimism, but simply: carrying on with craft, care, and curiosity. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Architecture of Uncertainty: Institutional Performance, Political Economy of Credibility, and the Strategic Asymmetries of Global Value
From the Open Economics Blog.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🔥 Gold breaks records, democracies wobble, and AI eats its own tail—yet the world keeps making, trading, enduring. Maybe resilience isn’t resistance or optimism, but simply: carrying on with craft, care, and curiosity. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
💫 Between AI bubbles and political chaos, small acts still matter: a handwoven braid, a well-cooked meal, a city that still works. In a liquid world, meaning survives through care, not spectacle. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Architecture of Uncertainty: Institutional Performance, Political Economy of Credibility, and the Strategic Asymmetries of Global Value
From the Open Economics Blog.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
💫 Between AI bubbles and political chaos, small acts still matter: a handwoven braid, a well-cooked meal, a city that still works. In a liquid world, meaning survives through care, not spectacle. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
🌍 We live in an age where crisis has become continuity. Markets rise amid shutdowns, AI feeds on its own hype, and craft endures as quiet rebellion. The future isn’t certain—but persistence itself may be our most radical act. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Architecture of Uncertainty: Institutional Performance, Political Economy of Credibility, and the Strategic Asymmetries of Global Value
From the Open Economics Blog.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🌍 We live in an age where crisis has become continuity. Markets rise amid shutdowns, AI feeds on its own hype, and craft endures as quiet rebellion. The future isn’t certain—but persistence itself may be our most radical act. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...