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Modern Futility
How the enchantments of consumer society keep us attached to a failing world-systemThere is something eerie about living in a civilization that cannot stop doing what is destroying the conditions…
The Ontological Design of Agentic AI and the Shape of Our Coevolution
As agentic systems move from the browser into our operating systems, we are no longer just using intelligent tools — we are embedding a worldview into machines that will quietly…
From Things to Flows
How Changing Our Metaphors Changes the Worlds We Can Live InModern life is saturated with things.We speak of the self, the economy, power, the system, nature, the market, society—as if…
Stop Saying We’re “Outsourcing Thinking”
Why AI Is an Epistemic Extension, Not a Cognitive AbdicationEvery time I hear someone say that using AI means we are “outsourcing thinking,” I feel the same quiet irritation one…
Entering the Studio Without Asking Permission
How AI is reshaping who gets to create — and what creation now asks of us.For most of human history, creative practice has been gated by thresholds that were invisible…
Agency Without Control
Rethinking the Self in an Age of Distributed IntelligenceMost people I speak with...
Navigating the Affordance Landscape
Creativity, Selfhood, and Agency in the Age of Extended AI.We are living through a period of change that is not merely technological but topologica...
Superpositioned Worlds
How Secular Urban Moderns Can Re-Enter the Pluriverse Through the Metaphors of ScienceFor decades, scholars of decoloniality and pluriversality have argued that the modern world is not the only world.…
How We Lost the Plot: What Happens When a Society Loses Its Shared Story — and Its Sense of the Real
We are living through a transformation so deep it cannot be captured by economics alone—one that is reshaping not just our livelihoods, but our very sense of what is real.For…