Society, Culture, Economy Int. (sceinternational)

As letters fade and algorithms rise, trust shifts from institutions to code; consumption becomes ritual therapy; states liberalize without democratizing; and culture rebuilds meaning at the edges. Our economy now runs on speed—but our sense of value still seeks anchors. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/the-texture-of-the-present-temporal?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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From a non-profit airline to Hong Kong’s deadly fire, art auctions to AI failures, this week shows systems under strain: infrastructure built for stability now buckles under new pressures, and the real politics lies in how we repair—and who gets left unprotected. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/the-texture-of-the-present-temporal?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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From modular homes to GLP-1 drugs to unsafe towers, this week’s news shows how housing, medicine, and cities struggle to serve real human lives. Our built and biological systems need redesign—not for efficiency, but for dignity. https://paragraph.com/@openaccessblogs/the-texture-of-the-present-temporal-compression-infrastructural-risk-and-the-politics-of-dignity

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🛩️From Arctic summits in airport lounges to festivals canceled by fear, from “cleanup” politics to crypto regulation—our world runs on spectacle, sovereignty, and platforms. The question isn’t if rules exist, but who scripts them—and for whose benefit. https://paragraph.com/@openaccessblogs/the-contemporary-reordering-how-climate-culture-and-capital-are-reshaping-our-world

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🗺️💱📱🤖 From Africa’s push to redraw the world map to Argentina’s inverted tourism flows, Dubai’s app-based panopticon, and AI’s bubble-sublime paradox — today’s headlines show how symbols, money, order, and tech are reshaping power and everyday life. https://paragraph.com/@openaccessblogs/the-global-constellation-personalized-power-economic-reversals-and-the-ai-paradox

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♣️From GPT-5 to tariff wars, museum fatigue to nightclub closures—our world looks like a kaleidoscope: fragments of tech, markets & culture interlocking in fragile, unexpected ways. The challenge is learning to see the pattern before it shatters. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/the-dialectics-of-contemporary-global?r=56p6o5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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