The Untranslatable
The collapse of academic discourse into English monoculture is not a triumph of accessibility. It is the elimination of intellectual ...
Tag: WHAT ENDURES
The 100-Year Company
Japan has 33,000 firms over a century old. Their survival is not cultural accident — it is structural. What they ...
Rabat’s Book Year Is Really About Who Gets Remembered
Rabat becoming UNESCO World Book Capital is not just a literary honour. It is a test of whether books can ...
Authorship Under Volume
The cost of producing a plausible book has fallen near to zero. The question is what that does to a ...
What a library is for, when half a million books stop being lent
The 2024 ruling in Hachette v. Internet Archive — and the half-million titles removed from digital lending in its wake ...
The Archive and the Memory
Every civilisation has confused preservation with transmission. AI training on the cultural corpus introduces a new version of this very ...
What the Farm Transmits
America lost approximately fifteen thousand farms in 2025. The loss of each farm is also the loss of what that ...
The Library That Doesn’t Know It’s Burning
Across two decades of digitisation, institutions have converted their archives without asking what they were losing. The photograph survives. The ...
We didn’t develop a loneliness problem. We demolished the places where loneliness couldn’t survive.
The loneliness epidemic is framed as a psychological condition requiring psychological intervention. The evidence suggests it is the predictable consequence ...
