The Thinking State
The Work of Thinking
A Kurdish voice engaging global debates on governance, technology, institutions and political imagination.
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The Desecration Problem
Author’s note: This opinion piece, which is rather philosophical than incremental in nature, is meant to be judged with the minds and hearts of those who go beyond the limits of earth and the heavens. My vain of thoughts, and nothing else are at play throughout my philosophical arguments here. The Great Fall of Humanity,…
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Book I of the Republic: Why the Fight Over Justice Actually Matters
Most people who pick up Plato’s Republic expect philosophy. What they get in the first book is something closer to a bar argument. Socrates walks into a room, gets pulled into a conversation he didn’t ask for, and ends up in a war of ideas with three very different men. Plato designed Book I as…
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If AI were a woman
Sounds like a delusional probe, doesn’t it? Except it is not. I asked a few friends to designate a specific female/male gender to AI. And to your surprise (not mine because I had a feeling they would pick female) they all said if we were to choose a gender, it would be female. This is…
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The Examined Life is Worth Living
To think is to command yourself. But how can one command self without the foundations of thinking and understanding? This is one of the key questions that I ask myself all the time. Here, I want to address it, in my own way of thinking, especially by focusing on the sovereign power of philosophical thought…
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.