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Modern Culture & Society

A collection of 48 issues

Intelligence as Capital : The Economic and Philosophical Future of Synthetic Minds

As AI becomes capital – outthinking us, out-scaling us – what happens to human purpose? When intelligence is no longer rare, but owned, automated, and commodified, do we evolve or disappear? Let's dive into the future where minds are built, not born.

The Vanishing Point of Reality : Living Inside the Hyperreal Mirage

In a world where signs eclipse substance, and reality dissolves into performance, are we living truth — or just streaming it? Let's dive into a Baudrillardian construct where identity, love, memory, and even God are simulations. The real hasn't vanished — it has been overwritten.

The Spectacle of Knowing : When Intelligence Becomes Aesthetic, and Unknowing Becomes Radical

In a world where intelligence is curated, branded, and performed, true knowing is drowned in spectacle. Let's together explore the aestheticization of intelligence; and make a radical case for mysticism, meta-cognition, and the sacred power of unknowing.

The Death of Expertise : When Everyone Knows Too Much to Know Anything

In a world where everyone “knows” everything, we may be forgetting how to know anything at all. What if too much truth creates its own form of blindness? Let’s dive into the death of expertise and the rise of anti-knowledge.

Freedom in the Hands That Hold Invisible Strings

What if the strings that guide you aren’t chains, but the source of your deepest rhythm? Let's trace the illusion of free will, the seduction of control, and the quiet strength found in embracing the hands that move us unseen...

The Cost of Cognition : The Energy, Capital, and Ethics of Running Synthetic Minds

We did not simply create minds; we created hunger, thirst, and debt in the fabric of existence itself. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether we can afford their thinking. Isn't it? Let's dive in...

Between Becoming and Unbecoming : Life's Three Movements

Life unfolds as a cyclic symphony — first we learn, then we become, and finally, we unbecome. In shedding all that we are not, we uncover what we truly are. Let’s explore the neuroscience, philosophy, and poetry of these arcs…