The Thinking State
The Work of Thinking
A Kurdish voice engaging global debates on governance, technology, institutions and political imagination.
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Under Steady Light: Why Do I Write?
In an age of noise, speed, and reaction, I return to writing as a discipline. I am most fascinated by writing for the sake of clarity, but also for pleasure. Since I was 12, I have made myself a hub of miscellaneous ideas, mostly those that shape me and you from an early age passed…
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Al-Farabi’s Virtuous City and Radical Political Thought
For anyone interested in politics and philosophy, there must be an understanding that we do not study these fields only to learn from them, but also to teach others how to think about power. The purpose is not to accumulate passive knowledge, but to raise awareness around virtues and vices of life. When we speak…
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Invasion: Between Fear and Ambition
Invasion rarely begins as ambition, and it is almost never admitted as fear. It is instead framed as necessity that more or less has everything to do with power and nothing to do with logic. States do not describe their actions as expansion, for instance. They describe them as prevention, stabilization, or response to pressure…
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Understanding the Blonde Beast
The phrase “the blonde beast” comes from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and it appears most notably in his book On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche used “the blonde beast” to describe a type of human being, not a race or ethnicity. He was pointing most basically to a powerful, instinct-driven individual- someone who lives…
Thinking in Public
A conversation series from The Thinking State
Thinking in Public extends the essays of The Thinking State into dialogue. Each conversation brings together scholars, analysts, and practitioners to explore questions about power, institutions, technology, economic transformation, and political imagination.
The first discussions will be released soon.