Part conjecture, part empirical investigation, we would like to elucidate the engine of history with a hybrid model that binds together systems theory, biological sciences, and dialectical materialism to describe our current moment.
Transition is a political economy of legibility, where safety and recognition are rationed through uneven access to hormones, cosmetic labor, and especially scarce, artisan-like surgery. The question isn’t who “counts” as a woman, but who has the power to enforce third-sexing through institutions, racialized standards, and the everyday threat of exclusion.
Industrial homogeneity once produced shared habits and values that made cultural and political ideas easier to spread, but today’s fragmented professional landscape lowers the common denominator and forces movements to become more multimodal and personalized. In that environment, “pseudo-political” violence can emerge less from organized ideology than from memes and narratives landing on specific psychological substrates shaped by isolation, despair, and ambient crisis.
The emergence of Special Economic Zones has been hailed by the likes of Slobodian as a harbinger of a new mode of bourgeois sovereignty. The expansion of space-based infrastructure is an interesting corollary phenomenon, also driven, for the most part, by private interests, some of whom are involved in the development of SEZs.
