III. Dream of the palace
On the political theology of dreams
Kerem Demirtas
SubstackArticles
II. Francis gives his mantle to the poor knight
The Great Refusal and the birth of a radical new consciousness
I. The homage of a simple man
A recognition of the modern subject
What if the surge in sovereign bond yields actually has to do with “sovereignty”?
Turning our attention to the definition of sovereignty might have explanatory power over why bond yields are surging everywhere all at once. Its time to introduce the sovereignty premium.
Theology strikes back.
Our age of post-war liberalism is collapsing. The pressing need for spiritual answers, i.e. theology could not but return to haunt us in this time of troubles.
We are in the midst of our very own Nixon Shock
55 years ago today on the 15th of August in 1971, then US president Richard Nixon went on air and uttered the words that effectively torpedoed the world order. And it is happening again
The AI bubble is not about the "AI"
The societal disruptions wrought by AI say more about the things being disrupted than AI. Wittgenstein's ruler strikes again.
(Civilizational) Bondage as Foreign Policy
What to make of the State Department offering taxpayer-funded money to European organisations that cultivate a civilisational bond with the US? has MAGA also read their Gramsci after Lenin?
The 'so called' liberal capitalism died in 2008. Not with a bang but with a whimper.
There is a direct causal thread that connects what transpired in 2008 with the ongoing talks of the Trump administration about a likely US government stake in OpenAI.
The case for a GPU Futures Market
We are under-discussing the geoeconomics, or the geofinance if you like, of the GPUs.
Is the Pope's latest Encyclical Counter-Reformation vol II
I hitherto did not countenance the historical analogy of our times with the Reformation period... until I read Pope Leo's Encylical. And if this is a Counter-Reformation Moment, where are the Jesuits?
A Jungian Critique of the LLM
LLMs are increasingly simulating the language of an individuated individual in a Jungian sense while structurally being unable to undergo individuation. that bodes ill for the society.
