Since when do computer games transgress social and political rules? The short answer: since China decided so and restricted its gaming community. Yet why does virtual reality threaten the development of the authoritarian state, but not a liberal one? Listen to our most recent podcast and find out why pacified Read more…
While face masks have become emblematic of the past two years and the symbol of restrictions, their casual improper donning around the chin has also marked the growing restriction fatigue. The discrepancy between face masks and ‘chin diapers’ marks the gap between the laws that we, as a society, declare, Read more…
The relatively recent rise of cryptocurrency, championed by Bitcoin, is intimately bound to the alluring promise that one may conduct investment without the manipulation of banks. The main selling point is therefore: divest from governmental control and place your future in your hands. Against a backdrop of currency inflation, central Read more…
In the last post we explored the phenomenon by which social revolutions re-establish the old injustices they sought to eliminate. Its Sisyphean nature is due to none other than a structural commitment to the ideological form. Now, it is time to show in more detail how the reality of ‘upcoming Read more…
One particular social symptom which is hard not to notice is the trend of millennial couples adopting dogs and cats and ‘raising them as their own’. I admit, this fetish has bothered me for the past decade. And as the years passed, it has only become more prevalent, provoking me Read more…
In the past five years, Malta has witnessed a wildfire of corruption revelations – from money laundering to outright assassination. On the one hand, there remains a total absence of radical change in domestic political culture, yet each time the corruption-of-the-month is revealed, in spite of the evident apathy, one Read more…