Kai Ochsen ⁽¹²⁸⁾

Civilization has always liked to believe in its own progress. We repeat to ourselves that reason triumphed over savagery, that ethics replaced instinct, and that compassion finally conquered spectacle. But every time the gates of a bullring open and the…

The ghost of flavor. Memory begins in the senses. Before language, before reasoning, before even fear, the world first entered us through smell. That invisible bridge between the external and the intimate defined how we recognized what was safe, familiar,…

The masquerade of belonging. Few things reveal the contradictions of globalization as clearly as our willingness to celebrate someone else’s holidays. Every October, storefronts across the planet transform into orange-and-black stages, filled with pumpkins, plastic skeletons, and slogans that once…

A visitor from nowhere. There are moments in science when the data itself feels like an act of defiance. Numbers refuse to behave, trajectories disobey expectation, and the instruments meant to bring clarity only deepen the fog. 3I/ATLAS, discovered in…

A new dawn in Tokyo. On an autumn morning when the skies over Tokyo still carried the pale haze of the typhoon season, Japan woke to a moment that will mark its political history. Sanae Takaichi, long known for her…