Conspicuous consumption
Status isn’t earned—it’s displayed, compared, and weaponised.
Behavioural economics
What happens to economics once it admits people are not rational.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
Crowds are only wise when they’re structured like Galton’s ox-guessers—not like Twitter threads.
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Adbusters
Adbusters diagnosed media inequality in 1989—and never updated the remedy.
Crypto-anarchy
Crypto-anarchy doesn’t change politics—it changes how Internet users imagine political change.
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Culture jamming
Culture jamming doesn’t break the system—it just makes the system quote itself back at you.
Cypherpunk
Cypherpunk turns cryptography into a political weapon.