Tag: Soviet Union
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Soviet Sci-Fi, and the Dream of Hyper-Organicity
This piece draws continuity from Venkatesh Rao’s excellent Contraptions post, “We Are The Robots” which begins with Kraftwerk’s iconic ode to the machine age and moves through fascinating detours on technology, systems, and culture. It felt like a natural fit for my “Music in Phase Space” playlist—a space where a music lede meets deeper questions…
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The Paranoid Edge
Somewhere in the haze of NSA intercepts and Russian war games, an uncomfortable truth slouches into focus: the United States has stumbled into a game it cannot win. Not because of some grand tactical error or an intelligence failure in Langley, but because of something far more insidious. The Russians—led by men like Putin and…