Montage and the Murmur of History

Adam Curtis’s Shifty as an Accidental Macro-Phenomenology

Oct 17 • 

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September 2025

August 2025

AI, Automation, and Power: Revisiting Old Fears in the Age of Big Tech

Automation anxiety hits knowledge workers

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

EU Trade Deal with the US—A Failure of Leverage or Political Resolve?

With some lessons from the Hanseatic League

Jul 30 • 

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Uncertain Hegemony: The Dollar’s Turmoil

The Euro’s Opportunity, the Yuan’s Emergence, and the Dollar’s Next Chapter

Jul 22 • 

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September 2024

The phenomenology of time, space, and sociality

Toward a framework for a macro-phenomenology

Sep 21, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Human augmentation and artificial intelligence

Recurring dilemmas of the computer age

Mar 18, 2024 • 

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December 2023

The Methodological Meaning of Phenomenology

Shifting From the Eidetic to the Empirical

Dec 1, 2023 • 

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June 2023

Social science as political knowledge

A brief reflection on the role of social science in a democratic society prompted by Jeffrey Friedman's last book

Jun 22, 2023 • 

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Recent interviews on the Sovereign Fund of Kosova

While I use this venue mainly for academic and intellectual musings, I would like to share two recent interviews I gave recently on my work related to…

Jun 8, 2023 • 

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May 2023

Social Theory and Technology: Unraveling Intellectual Development and Interrogating the Relationship

A reflection on the status of technology in social theory and political economy

May 31, 2023 • 

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December 2022

How phenomenology redefines the notion of “reasoning” in sociology

A critique of sociological practice theory

Dec 13, 2022 • 

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