Politics After Platforms

Feeds allocate visibility; visibility becomes leverage. A Strange Loop series on order vs chaos in a world optimised for reach.

I don’t like writing about politics.

This is, as ever, a series about technology: the global system we built, ceded governance to, and now live inside. To run a 24/7 technocapitalist machine we fired the humans and wrote algorithms, then let them allocate what is seen, valued, and acted upon. Everything flows downstream of that layer: economics, culture,…