This is a beautifully written but structurally flawed critique of global displacement. Nation of Strangers suffers from a jarring blind spot by attempting to equate the author’s jet-setting, privileged exile with the harrowing reality of the truly stateless.
Silicon Valley’s Benin Bronzes: The Shared Logic of Museum Looting and AI Scraping
We must recognize that the fight against unregulated, predatory AI models is not merely a niche legal battle over copyright infringement or digital licensing. It is a deeply political, inherently decolonial struggle. It is a continuation of the exact same resistance that indigenous and colonized communities have been waging for centuries against the institutional forces that seek to commodify, centralize, and erase human history.
The Savior Complex and the Scalpel: Decolonizing The Covenant of Water
An unpopular critique of Abraham Verghese’s epic. Unpacking the idyllic portrait of colonial India, the realities of caste, and the savior complex of medicine
This Hybrid Reads 