Month: April 2026
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On the Dignity of Withdrawal
There is a distinct, suffocating odour that hangs over the modern digital agora. It is not the scent of fresh inquiry or robust debate, but of stale, recycled outrage and the metallic tang of algorithmic manipulation. It is the smell of a civilisation that has forgotten how to speak to itself, preferring instead to scream…
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Linguistic Theatre
There is a new and particularly insipid form of superstition sweeping the West, a kind of digital animism that would have made the most credulous Victorian spiritualist blush. It is the conviction that the silicon chip has acquired a soul, or at least a conscience, and that we must now hold it accountable for the…