The End of the Screen Era? Good. But Don’t Celebrate Yet.
There is something almost poetic about the moment we are living through. Apple, Meta, and OpenAI, three of the most powerful architects of our screen…
Filter posts by category
A Dance Forgotten, A Laugh Remembered
The yellow cobblestones of ulitsa Tsar Shishman were slick with rain, shining like wet amber under the streetlamps. The city was a familiar hum: trams…
Europe’s Last Chance to Rethink Itself, Before It Processes Itself to Oblivion
Europe is not collapsing. It is doing something more European than collapse: it is administering decline, competently, procedurally, and with a moral vocabulary that makes…
The Talking Mirror
We built a social network where humans were not allowed. That detail matters more than anything else. An empty stage, a sealed arena, populated only…
Intelligence, Displacement, and the Question of Agency
I was fascinated by technology long before I understood what the word meant. I must have been six or seven years old. My parents’ library…
The Fourteen-Billion Dollar Copy-Paste: A Digital Transformation Tragedy
Or: Why the Republic of Meridiana Has the World’s Most Advanced System for Doing Nothing In March 2021, the Republic of Meridiana achieved something remarkable….
Between Vienna and Plovdiv: Music as Identity – converation with Prof. Dr. Eugeniy Chevkenov
“Tradition is like a seed — you can’t force it to bear fruit overnight.” — Prof. Dr. Eugeniy Chevkenov The Tone of a Meeting There…
Inherited Silence
In the previous article exploring the historical origins of Bulgaria’s political apathy, I looked at how repeated cycles of political violence combined with undemocratic structures…
End-of-the-year digest – THE BOX IS THE BOX
A weekly digest – part serious, part not – in partnership with The Sofia Globe “Mirror, mirror on the digital wall, who is the truthful…
From Podcast to Print – The Long Road to the First Bulgarian Empire
Much like with the Bulgarian History Podcast itself, I began working on my first book because I felt it should exist. My career goal was…
The Grand Illusion: How Brussels Became a Museum and Why Bulgaria Might Be the Future
The Greeks had a word for it: hubris – the belief that mortals could achieve what only gods should attempt. In Brussels, where the towers…
As an actor, I was born in Bulgaria
It began with an advert in an English-language newspaper, The Sofia Echo. A foreign production was seeking English-speakers for small parts in a feature film…