Publications

Stop calling it brainrot

Something strange happened to short-form video in the public imagination. A format that reaches more than a billion people daily, that has launched careers, preserved languages, documented traditions, and made strangers feel less alone, became synonymous with everything broken about modern life. Attention rot. Dopamine loops. The end of culture.

Campaigning in the age of authenticity

For a long time, elites acted as gatekeepers in political systems. At various points they alone could vote, decide who could run, and determine what political options were even on the table.