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2026 4

  1. Past Obsessions
  2. Turbo-Culture
  3. The World of Dreampolitik
  4. First Contact with America

2025 9

  1. 2025 Recap
  2. Within the Context of No Context, Revisited
  3. Living with Too Many Stories
  4. Nothing Left Inside
  5. Alarm and Overload
  6. Welcome to the Technocracy
  7. On Weird America
  8. The Internet as a Giant Skinner Box
  9. The New Vertigo Years

2024 4

  1. When Writers Became Politicians
  2. The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think)
  3. Symphonies of Color
  4. 2023 Recap

2023 13

  1. The Return of the World's Fair
  2. There Once Was an Empire
  3. The Purpose of the Novel
  4. Living in a Time of Psychopolitics
  5. When America Received a Message from the Future
  6. Weekly Retrospective #6
  7. Weekly Retrospective #5
  8. Weekly Retrospective #4
  9. Join My Chat (let's call this Weekly Retrospective #3)
  10. Panic in the Skies
  11. Weekly Retrospective #2
  12. Weekly Retrospective #1
  13. How the Locomotive Became a Metaphor for Modernity

2022 12

  1. 2022 Recap
  2. Maybe Real Modernity Has Only Just Started
  3. "What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates?"
  4. A Deep Dive Down the Memory Hole
  5. Politics Is Becoming an Ant Mill
  6. The Social Recession: By the Numbers
  7. Why Novum?
  8. A World of Civilization States
  9. A Past War Looms Over the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
  10. Too Many Wannabe Elites: A Story of Russia (and Possibly America)
  11. Uncertain Futures
  12. The 19th Century Returns