Tekno-Politika

Could Pope Leo XIV’s Gandalf Wisdom Be AI’s Rerum Novarum?

Pope Leo XIV quotes Gandalf to call for humility and human dignity in the AI age, teaming with Anthropic’s Olah against Valley strategy.

May 26 • Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD.

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Temporal Ontologies and the Ethics of Explainable AI

When AI learns to compute time itself, prediction becomes more than forecasting.

May 7 • M. Meresi

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April 2026

The Algorithmic Radical: Rationalization, Obsolescence, and the Disaffection of the Surplus Generation

A generation rendered economically and socially surplus by hyper-rationalization, caught between a dying 1945 political order and an accelerating…

Apr 20 • Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD.

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Abyss of The AI Economy: Enter The Not So Brave New World

Automate to win, fire your customers, enjoy zero-demand utopia! Pigouvian tax to the rescue.

Apr 15 • Orkun H. Bayır

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March 2026

Crossing the Sensory Threshold: Algorithmic Warfare, Cognitive Limits, and the Autonomous Systems

AI shatters human cognition's limits, redefining reality. As algorithms shape wars & truths, can ethics let us reclaim control?

Mar 31 • Eren Özer

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The Silicon Motor: AI, Sam Altman, and the Return of the Objectivist Question

Will AI become Rearden Metal for unbound creativity, or a metered mind that erodes cognitive sovereignty? The new question echoes: Who controls the…

Mar 23 • Orkun H. Bayır

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Thiel in Rome, or On the Debate over Techno-Eschatology

Why Silicon Valley's transhumanist salvation is a new post-political sovereignty

Mar 21 • Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD.

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Digital Literacy is Now a Matter of Civic Defense and the Turkic World Can’t Ignore It

While synthetic truths reshape reality and algorithms redefine our identities, digital AI literacy has become the non-negotiable foundation of civic…

Mar 15 • Sabina Mammadova

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Why is JD Vance Quiet on Iran and How It Fits Rockbridge's Post-Trump MAGA Plan

In the Iran war's explosive drama, Vice President JD Vance has mysteriously slipped into shadows. Could this vanishing act be a rift or a clever move…

Mar 11 • Büşra Begçecanlı

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February 2026

History Repeats Itself: Return of The Great Divergence, Conquistador, and Dragons

“If we know history, we change it (it doesn’t repeat). If history repeats, it means we didn’t know it, or couldn’t stop it.”

Feb 20 • Orkun H. Bayır

The World Order Has Died, Long Live Huxley’s Brave New World

As nation-states fall and orders die, nothing matters more than sipping espresso on a Parisienne terrace, unruffled, unhurried, eternally chic.

Feb 18 • Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD.

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January 2026

The Monsters of Our Time

Antonio Gramsci’s sober diagnosis of “morbid symptoms” has been cheerfully upgraded to the far catchier “now is the time of monsters”, because nothing…

Jan 30 • Alp Cenk Arslan, PhD.

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