Do Not Answer: Bogna Konior and the Dark Forest of the Internet

Somewhere in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy there is a scene where humanity’s first message to the stars is intercepted by an alien pacifist, who risks everything to …
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In the silence of the startling news, I reach out to Michael and ask if we may write a text together. Imagine a correspondence. To acknowledge. And inscribe.

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On 6 July 2026, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights transmitted to the delegations of its participating states a certain document: a report on the militarization and …
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The ideological grammar of capital

A famous scene in Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976) has grown more illuminating with each passing decade. Arthur Jensen (Ned Beaty), chairman of a multinational corporation, summons Howard Beale (Peter Finch) – …
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On my office wall, at an institution I taught at a few years ago, was a dull, unimposing poster from the American Psychological Association—the organization responsible for the conventions of …
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