Here in the USA, we are preparing to counter an attack and declare state of war any moment now. The security agencies keep repeating it, but few people are listening to it – and even (more…)
Author: Amalia Negreponti
Amalia Negreponti has worked for years as a journalist and critic for outlets including the BBC, La Règle du Jeu, Medium, HuffPost, Ta Nea, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Athens, she emigrated to the US in 2013 and now lives in New York as a writer, researcher and strategist. She also red-teams neural networks and writes about consciousness, memory and the genesis of emotion. She is the recipient of a Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship from the French Foreign Ministry, and has participated in various policy fora about AI, national security and culture, organized by The Aspen Institute, the AJC’s Project Interchange, and Lighthaven.
The birth of the world we have yet to know
The story of Cyprus was an endless thriller we watched like an undeletable movie: distanced from Greece, but not enough to protect it from the new cypriot tragedy, and the precarious safety distance (more…)
When desire becomes need, and necessity hailed as an ideal
The Troika is planning to offer less money to Cyprus as a bailout package. In particular, the goal of the Troika is to reduce the bailout package to 10 billion euros from the 17 billion euros (more…)
New life (for newspapers too)
The New York Stock Exchange is skyrocketing and Dow Jones breaking a new record each day. Google is the new Apple and Facebook seems to have definitely missed the train to becoming more than a (more…)
Living in the bubble
The air is cold but the city gives off the aura of a night that took its turn from a sunlit, crystal day.
You cross the busy streets, full of passers-by that grow scarcer and scarcer as the day ends (more…)