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Dependence and Dominion: A Critical Description of Trump’s Davos Address as an Economy of Security, Tariffs, and Ownership
The event was hybrid: a presidential address staged inside a global business-and-governance convocation, then partially reframed as a conversational “fireside” exchange whose very possibility is jokingly placed in doubt by the speaker. Its central problem-space is the relation between economic narration and sovereign claim: prosperity is asserted as an accomplished fact, then treated as warrant…
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Scaling the Candle: Engineering Optimism, Energy Constraint, and the Public Justification of Abundance in the Davos Musk–Fink Dialogue
The Davos conversation between Laurence D. Fink and Elon Musk is structured as a public exercise in justified optimism under institutional conditions that demand legibility, investability, and procedural civility. Its central problem-space concerns the possibility of presenting a single, integrated orientation toward “AI, robotics, energy, and space” as a coherent engineering project and, simultaneously, as…
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AI as a Truth-Procedure: Davos, Alex Karp, and the Exposure of Institutional Reality
The recorded exchange at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, framed as a “conversation” between Laurence D. Fink and Alex Karp, stages artificial intelligence as a problem of institutional judgment rather than a mere problem of computational capability. Across a compact sequence of prompts and answers, the event concentrates on how sovereign…
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Welt und Zeit—Censorship, 18:01—12. Februar 2025
Censorship is the strategic suppression of expression, a force that operates in the intercourse of power and knowledge, visibility and invisibility, silence and speech. It is at once an act of negation—the erasure of words, ideas, and images from the public sphere—and an act of production, shaping what can be thought, said, and ultimately, what…
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‘Ukraine, Palestine, and Other Troubles’ by Slavoj Žižek
Ukraine, Palestine, and Other Troubles by Slavoj Žižek is a searing exploration of the apocalyptic tenor of our times, a work that takes as its subject the crises defining our global moment. Žižek, with his inimitable combination of philosophical rigor, psychoanalytic insight, and political audacity, offers nothing less than an intellectual intervention into the madness…
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I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Illia Ponomarenko is a sprawling, unflinchingly intimate immersion into a conflict that most would prefer to keep at arm’s length. It is the book that punctures the neat categories of “us and them,” “invader and invaded,” and “hero and villain,” forcing readers…
Simon Gros 