Exploring the overlap between code and reason

The moral appetite. Few subjects in modern culture reveal as much confusion between ethics and nature as food. What was once a necessity has become a declaration of identity. In recent decades, eating has turned into a moral performance, and…

The quiet coup of the terms and conditions. Every era has its form of conquest. Ours was not achieved through armies or revolutions but through updates. Somewhere between a download and a click, we surrendered our right to negotiate. The…

Respect once acted as the silent contract that made coexistence possible. It governed how we spoke to one another, how we treated the old and the young, how we cared for animals and land. It was not imposed by law…

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…