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From museum restitution to media reshuffles, disappearing marriages to stalled climate goals, culture today reflects a deeper search for legitimacy. As old authorities fade, new norms emerge—but without shared anchors, the struggle is to create meaning in the churn. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
From museum restitution to media reshuffles, disappearing marriages to stalled climate goals, culture today reflects a deeper search for legitimacy. As old authorities fade, new norms emerge—but without shared anchors, the struggle is to create meaning in the churn. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Saudi mega-deals, China–Japan clashes over Taiwan, and stalled G20/COP30 talks show a world trading institutions for transactions. As multilateralism thins, power flows through private channels—and the margin for miscalculation grows. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Saudi mega-deals, China–Japan clashes over Taiwan, and stalled G20/COP30 talks show a world trading institutions for transactions. As multilateralism thins, power flows through private channels—and the margin for miscalculation grows. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
AI races ahead as doubt deepens, politics shifts while trust erodes, the Arctic melts into a new frontier, artisans revive old crafts amid digital excess. In a world moving faster than its institutions, meaning survives in the spaces refusing acceleration. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
AI races ahead as doubt deepens, politics shifts while trust erodes, the Arctic melts into a new frontier, artisans revive old crafts amid digital excess. In a world moving faster than its institutions, meaning survives in the spaces refusing acceleration. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World
From the Open Economics Blog.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Liminal Horizons: Speculative Inheritance, Emergent Extraction, and Epistemic Collapse in a Thawing World open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
From golden toilets to grounded flights, this week’s stories reveal a world struggling to maintain its systems—cultural, infrastructural, political. Amid art-market theatrics, local craft and identity remain the quiet anchors holding the future together. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Velocity of Fragmentation: Polycentric institutionalism, Temporal Politics, and the Political Economy of Legitimacy
From the Open Culture Blog.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
From golden toilets to grounded flights, this week’s stories reveal a world struggling to maintain its systems—cultural, infrastructural, political. Amid art-market theatrics, local craft and identity remain the quiet anchors holding the future together. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Politics radicalize, climate urgency cools, markets dematerialize—and yet new cultural and civic spaces quietly reshape what’s possible.
This week’s dispatches reveal a world unsettled but still improvising its future.
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This week’s dispatches reveal a world unsettled but still improvising its future.
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The Velocity of Fragmentation: Polycentric institutionalism, Temporal Politics, and the Political Economy of Legitimacy
From the Open Culture Blog.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Politics radicalize, climate urgency cools, markets dematerialize—and yet new cultural and civic spaces quietly reshape what’s possible.
This week’s dispatches reveal a world unsettled but still improvising its future.
open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
This week’s dispatches reveal a world unsettled but still improvising its future.
open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Velocity of Fragmentation: Polycentric institutionalism, Temporal Politics, and the Political Economy of Legitimacy open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
The Velocity of Fragmentation: Polycentric institutionalism, Temporal Politics, and the Political Economy of Legitimacy
From the Open Culture Blog.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Velocity of Fragmentation: Polycentric institutionalism, Temporal Politics, and the Political Economy of Legitimacy open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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Sudan burns, Gaza trembles, AI booms, Bitcoin sinks—the world’s crises now rhyme. Power decides whose pain counts, markets trade on risk, and “green” fixes mirror old habits. Yet in the ruins, faintly, the Not-Yet of renewal still flickers. 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 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sudan burns, Gaza trembles, AI booms, Bitcoin sinks—the world’s crises now rhyme. Power decides whose pain counts, markets trade on risk, and “green” fixes mirror old habits. Yet in the ruins, faintly, the Not-Yet of renewal still flickers. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
From NYC’s socialist mayor to Tanzania’s autocrat, from trillion-dollar CEOs to unpaid caregivers—November 2025 shows democracy and capitalism in syncopation: one gasping, the other gorging. The world still runs—but mostly on contradiction. 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 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
From NYC’s socialist mayor to Tanzania’s autocrat, from trillion-dollar CEOs to unpaid caregivers—November 2025 shows democracy and capitalism in syncopation: one gasping, the other gorging. The world still runs—but mostly on contradiction. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
November 2025: Trump and Xi trade smiles, Big Tech burns billions, hurricanes meet record oil profits. Between truce and turmoil, the world runs on choreography—AI dreams, fossil debts, and the fragile art of staying upright on a spinning stage. 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 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
November 2025: Trump and Xi trade smiles, Big Tech burns billions, hurricanes meet record oil profits. Between truce and turmoil, the world runs on choreography—AI dreams, fossil debts, and the fragile art of staying upright on a spinning stage. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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...