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Catastrophic Populism

In the United States, the early twenty-first-century autocratic turn emerges from a system that was already structurally fragile. Long before any individual leader came to dominate the political field, democratic legitimacy had thinned, institutional trust had decayed, and communicative coherence had been weakened by inequality, media saturation, and sustained disinvestment in public understanding. Into this […]

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Metabolic Power

Post author By G
Post date Dec 28, 2025
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Modern power does not stabilise disorder. It metabolises it. At planetary scale, technological and financial systems do not merely respond to uncertainty. They generate specific instabilities that make their own interventions appear necessary, then present themselves as the most probable remedy. This is not a claim about intent. It is a structural tendency of adaptive […]