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A critical survey of culture, philosophy, and politics. Overall focused on the movement of movements, the control of control, and the communications of communications. Informed by Hegelian dialectics, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics.

Newsletter · By Nikki Kirigin · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 17, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Looksmaxxing is an Antidote to Nihilism (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    Why AI Will Never Be Hegelian (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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  3. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Bikinis, Tradcaths, and European Sensibilities (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    Author's Note: Special thanks to Theo for helping me workshop and develop some of the ideas contained in this essay.One of my good friends sent me a video of Louise Perry appearing on Ross Douthat’s podcast Interesting Times, titled How the Sexual Revolution Brought Us Tradwives. My friend told me that Louise Perry, self-described as a reactionary feminist, has significantly shaped her worldviews and that she loves her work. She specifically told me to focus on the term “HETEROPESSIMISM” and tha

  4. Issue · Aug 15, 2026

    The Lost Wanderer (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Continental Cope (opens the original)

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