Georgia – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Pathways for the Post-COVID New Old World

Part 5 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Some are openly proclaiming, “you don’t want to waste a crisis,” as they calculate how the crisis could become a series of opportunities to “change things”. We have to question whether strategic pre-positioning to shape the “post-COVID normal,” might end up even unconsciously shaping the authorities’ responses […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer: Nature vs. Culture in a Pandemic

Part 4 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. The Seventh Seal As if taken from a plot of some 1950s science-fiction classic, or an episode from the original Twilight Zone series, our reality lends itself easily to the understandings produced by fictional approaches to truth: Imagine a town, besieged by an invisible alien invader—nobody has […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Welcome to Sevastopol

WELL SAID

by Maximilian C. Forte

Reflected Hypocrisy: Russia Holds Up a Georgian Mirror (1.6)

Principles, Etched into Thin Air From my own limited schooling in International Law, what I took away was that there was no “international law” as such, as a single codified corpus of laws that all nations could or would agree with, or helped to formulate, and then remained permanent. Instead, like current forms of “world […]