Een leven dat niet kan verjaren
Wat gebeurt er met menselijke vrijheid wanneer digitale systemen ons verleden niet alleen bewaren, maar er ook onze toekomst mee voorspellen?
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World & Systems
How do large systems change before their official stories catch up?
What this route follows
These essays read geopolitics, institutions and infrastructures as connected systems whose decisive changes often arrive through accumulation rather than announcement.
Where it could lead
The research programme is to combine historical, cultural, material and computational readings of systemic change while keeping their disagreements visible.
Essays in this theme
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The Price of a Clean Conscience
What indulgences, carbon offsets and discount vouchers have in common
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Who is building whom?
An unseen observer arrives on Dam Square and tries to locate human intelligence. What begins as a question about cities and systems becomes a deeper inquiry into agency, power, AI and the feedback loops through which the worlds we build begin to shape us in return.
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The Silent Unraveling
A multimodal AI inquiry into Europe’s unseen layers.
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Year Review 2026
The end of politics — or its migration into systems and infrastructure?
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When a Regime Uses Religion
How political language turns belief into an instrument of power.
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The Signals We See, The Signals We Miss
A short essay on crisis, time and the bias of perception.
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The Ghost in the Machine: When Data Dissolves the Drama
A follow-up to The Choreography of War.
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The Echo of the Node
Why Davos no longer speaks the language of power.
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Greenland and the Return of Power
How rules become selective when leverage returns.
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Prelude to a Thinking Future
A philosophical reflection on AGI, free will and the mirror we are building.
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