Essays + Notes

This is where I keep my essays and notes: short reflections, influences, and thoughts I’m working out. Passages I can’t shake, questions I keep returning to, the connections that shape my practice. 

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Do We Still Need Social Media?

The question of whether we still need social media is less about individual preference and more about structure. These platforms present themselves as essential gateways to visibility, connection, and relevance.

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The Inversion of Harm

The boundaries of what a society chooses to forbid can be as revealing as the freedoms it insists on preserving. The American landscape today shows an inversion that is difficult to ignore: books are banned for the language they use to describe violence or sexuality, while guns that make such violence possible remain constitutionally protected.

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Economic Sleepwalking

We live in state of economic sleepwalking believing we have no alternatives to the current economic way of life. We investigate, criticise, and explore - but do not stop long enough to ask - is this a must?

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Must We Thrive?

There is a type of human-economical Zeitgeist, one with a premise that we exist as biological economic production units — money our soul intent, expressed by the cliché

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