Intelligence Underground
Who gets remembered, who gets erased—and who’s rebuilding the record We tend to imagine archives as neutral spaces. Quiet rooms filled with boxes. Digital repositories. Organized shelves. A place for memory, for preservation, for fact. But archives are not passive collections of knowledge. They are acts of curation,
Intelligence Underground
Alternative frameworks with surprising value In every intellectual era, there are ideas that live in the margins. They are too speculative, too symbolic, too spiritual, too strange—or simply too inconvenient—for the dominant discourse. They’re dismissed as fringe, unserious, pseudoscientific, regressive, or naive. Often, they are ignored not
Intelligence Underground
Mental hygiene for digital age thinkers The internet is not neutral. Its infrastructures may be invisible, its design may be frictionless, but its effects are everywhere. In our attention spans. Our emotional regulation. Our beliefs about what’s real. Our inner voice. Our ability to think. We now live inside
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A defense of skeptical thinking in a post-truth world To question consensus is no longer a sign of intellectual rigor. In today’s discourse, it often triggers suspicion. Disagree too pointedly, and you're labeled a contrarian. Ask the wrong question, and you might be accused of harboring conspiratorial
Intelligence Underground
Profiles of thinkers who left—or were pushed out of—the institution. Academia was once imagined as a sanctuary for thought—a place where ideas, however controversial or complex, could be explored freely, tested rigorously, and debated in good faith. But over time, the institution became a system. And like