You: How Joe Goldberg Mistakes Control for Love
A look at Joe Goldberg and Beck in Netflix's You, and how surveillance, control, and a curated fantasy get dressed up as…
What Snowpiercer’s Train Reveals About Class and Survival
A poetic reading of Snowpiercer's train as a portrait of class division and hunger, where every comfort up front is paid for…
From Turing’s Question to the Age of Machine Learning
Tracing artificial intelligence from Aristotle's logic and Turing's famous question through the Dartmouth Workshop and the AI winter that followed.
Four Machines, Four Ways of Learning to Feel
Samantha, David, Ava, and Roy Batty each answer the same question differently: what happens the moment a machine starts to feel something…
Your Friends & Neighbors: Wealthy Lives, Hidden Rot
Your Friends & Neighbors follows a man breaking into his wealthy neighbors' homes, uncovering the rot hiding behind their perfect front doors.
Astroturfing: The Fake Consensus Manufactured Online
A thousand identical comments don't mean a thousand angry people. Inside astroturfing, the spiral of silence, and how manufactured consensus fools us.
When Mental Illness Gets Mistaken for Sorcery
Why psychological pain still gets read as sorcery or the evil eye across many Arab households, and the real cost of delaying…
How Fear Becomes a Tool of Control — And How to Resist It
Power doesn't always need force. A look at how fear quietly enforces obedience in workplaces and institutions, and how to protect your…
Daredevil: Matt Murdock, Elektra, and the Pull of the Shadow
Reading Matt Murdock and Elektra's relationship in Daredevil through Carl Jung's idea of the shadow, and why she always pulls him toward…