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Anton Cebalo’s Journalist Portfolio

Technocracy 2.0

Technocracy 2.0

As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the mergin…

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A New Anti-Political Fervor | NOEMA

A New Anti-Political Fervor | NOEMA

How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy.

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Is America suffering a 'social recession'? | Anton Cebalo

Is America suffering a 'social recession'? | Anton Cebalo

Ever since a notorious chart showing that fewer people are having sex than ever before first made the rounds,…

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Who Are Today's Nihilists?

Who Are Today's Nihilists?

Unlike in Czarist Russia, Nihilist Violence Today Is Motivated by Pure Negation

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Midcentury Planners Demolished America's Social Fabric

Midcentury Planners Demolished America's Social Fabric

Americans did see a glimpse of the future that day, but there wasn't much of in it. Geddes's exhibit was a me…

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The Allure of Everything Kitsch

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By Anton Cebalo
| 3 Quarks Daily
Kitsch has become so broad a category as to be often meaningless. Kitschy art and products of the past can easily be repackaged as trendy these days, and sincerity is blurred entirely. I had always considered kitschiness to be an aesthetic quality, a mass-produced knockoff of something genuine. Milan Kundera's 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being expands on kitsch though, as something necessary for politics and general social organization. His definition is the most compelling I've found.
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Talking Yourself into a Catastrophe

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By Anton Cebalo
| 3 Quarks Daily
It goes without saying that one can talk oneself into problems. Your own stories become pathological like a slow drip eroding your senses. And you may find yourself circling a narrative so many times over that language starts to fail. What's left then is just feeling. Exhaustion with it all gives way to resentment and anxiety as many morbid symptoms appear.
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Vienna’s cafés inspired poets. Belgrade’s bred dissent

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By Anton Cebalo
| Aeon Verified
One day at Café Central in Vienna in 1894, Peter Altenberg was reading a story in the newspaper about the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl. He decided to write a short poem in her honour. Then, by mere chance, some of the great names of the Viennese literary world entered the café: Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Felix Salten, Richard Beer-Hofmann and Hermann Bahr.
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