A comparative study contrasting the coercive survival strategies of classic authoritarian regimes like Iraq, Libya, and Syria with the institutionalized, legalistic methods of hybrid regimes such as Hungary.
In an imagined 2025, authoritarian oppression arrives as insomnia. As Digital Ghost Networks use data exhaust to induce repetitive, invasive dreams, citizens resist by sharing their experiences, polluting their data, and reclaiming sleep as an act of civil disobedience.
A hardline geopolitical analysis contrasting China's authoritarian, anti-dialogue model of governance with Norway's resilient, transparent architecture. The memo argues that authoritarian shortcut models are inherently unstable and pose a civilizational threat.