Thomas Boysen Anker
@thomasboysenanker.bsky.social
Public intellectual exploring generative freedom, post-human inquiry, symbolic economies, nomadic knowledge-identities and embodied worlds.
Political momentum isn’t just about ideas or institutions: it’s about how meaning activates, compounds and mutates. A new essay on the semiotics of democratic backsliding.
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The Semiotics of Political Momentum
Why the Hard Right Advances and Liberals Are Losing Ground
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December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Political momentum isn’t just about ideas or institutions: it’s about how meaning activates, compounds and mutates. A new essay on the semiotics of democratic backsliding.
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Rumours move faster than facts because trust outruns evidence. And that velocity becomes its own truth.
Read my new essay on Substack...
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Read my new essay on Substack...
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Why Rumours Travel Faster than Facts
The Compounding Logic of Belief
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December 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Rumours move faster than facts because trust outruns evidence. And that velocity becomes its own truth.
Read my new essay on Substack...
open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
Read my new essay on Substack...
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A new poem in the Nomads of Knowledge series — It’s Not a Place. It explores belonging, dislocation and the strange kind of “home” that emerges among global travellers of ideas.
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It's Not a Place
Dr Jan Breitsohl @jbreitsohl | Bad Zwischenahn; Olsberg: Germany | Aberystwyth: Wales | Kent: England | Glasgow: Scotland | Knowmad since 1999
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December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A new poem in the Nomads of Knowledge series — It’s Not a Place. It explores belonging, dislocation and the strange kind of “home” that emerges among global travellers of ideas.
open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
New reflection on why symbols and the narrative self are key enabling conditions of freedom and democracy.
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Freedom, Democracy and the Symbolic Economy
Democracy lives not only in institutions but in the symbolic spaces where people craft identity, negotiate meaning and make themselves seen
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November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New reflection on why symbols and the narrative self are key enabling conditions of freedom and democracy.
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On the day of the UK budget announcement and yet another round of tax increases, read my thoughts on re-imagining wealth redistribution. open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
Towards a Post-Tax Economy
Today’s budget announcement by Rachel Reeves that income taxes will be frozen at current thresholds until 2030-31 is expected to raise £8.3bn by the end of the forecast period, according to the Office...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
On the day of the UK budget announcement and yet another round of tax increases, read my thoughts on re-imagining wealth redistribution. open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
Nebulous - Read the first poem from the Nomads of Knowledge project. This is my creative exploration of the impact of knowledge-based emigration on identity, belonging and the shaping of scientific-mindsets. open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
Nebulous
Dr Haoran Liu | Jinan, Xi’an: China | Sheffield, London: England | Glasgow: Scotland | Knowmad since 2018
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November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Nebulous - Read the first poem from the Nomads of Knowledge project. This is my creative exploration of the impact of knowledge-based emigration on identity, belonging and the shaping of scientific-mindsets. open.substack.com/pub/thomasbo...
"This is not a healthcare crisis. This is a freedom crisis." Read more in my new essay on The Freedom Wealth Fund. Share your views, join the conversation! open.substack.com/pub/generati...
The Freedom Wealth Fund
Investing in the Enabling Conditions of Compounding Freedom
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November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"This is not a healthcare crisis. This is a freedom crisis." Read more in my new essay on The Freedom Wealth Fund. Share your views, join the conversation! open.substack.com/pub/generati...
The measure of a society’s success is not only what we earn or own, but what we return to the shared pool of possibility. Read my new essay on Generative Freedom generativefreedom.substack.com/p/rethinking...
Rethinking Freedom as a Dynamic Social Process
Freedom is never purely individual; it is co-produced through the infrastructures of a shared life
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The measure of a society’s success is not only what we earn or own, but what we return to the shared pool of possibility. Read my new essay on Generative Freedom generativefreedom.substack.com/p/rethinking...
We talk about freedom as if it's a natural state that costs nothing. But freedom is borrowed from the work, infrastructure, institutions and stability others create. Freedom compounds when we reinvest in its enabling conditions & it erodes when we don't.
That's the core insight behind #GenFree
That's the core insight behind #GenFree
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We talk about freedom as if it's a natural state that costs nothing. But freedom is borrowed from the work, infrastructure, institutions and stability others create. Freedom compounds when we reinvest in its enabling conditions & it erodes when we don't.
That's the core insight behind #GenFree
That's the core insight behind #GenFree
The #GenFree Declaration is live! #DemocraticCapitalism is in crisis — not because freedom failed, but because we’ve misunderstood what makes it possible. Freedom isn’t a natural state; it’s a co-produced asset — built, sustained, and repaid together.
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Generative Freedom – The GenFree Declaration
A Founding Statement for a 21st-Century Framework of Democratic Capitalism
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November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The #GenFree Declaration is live! #DemocraticCapitalism is in crisis — not because freedom failed, but because we’ve misunderstood what makes it possible. Freedom isn’t a natural state; it’s a co-produced asset — built, sustained, and repaid together.
generativefreedom.substack.com/p/generative...
generativefreedom.substack.com/p/generative...
Freedom needs a new language. Generative Freedom launches today — exploring agency, autonomy, and democracy in the AI era. #GenFree Join the conversation: generativefreedom.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to GenFree: Reimagining Freedom for a New Century
Politics is stuck in old arguments.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Freedom needs a new language. Generative Freedom launches today — exploring agency, autonomy, and democracy in the AI era. #GenFree Join the conversation: generativefreedom.substack.com/p/welcome-to...