Unpacking the myths that make today’s empires feel inevitable.
As an anthropologist, I write about the hidden architectures of dominance: how history gets weaponised, how ideas and convictions shape governance, and how power is contested. This publication is grounded in the notion that understanding emerges through friction, not monologue.
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