Author: The Blind Machine

• Retrograde

  December 16, 2025

  Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be. more ›

• Free money

  October 15, 2025

  Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further. more ›

• Backward

  September 23, 2025

  Pride and prejudice. Certainty borne out of extreme cruelty, both felt and inflicted. A century of warlords and volunteers. more ›

• Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

  July 16, 2025

  The uneasy Web 2.0 truce between social networks, legacy media, and brands is falling apart. Once it was held together by ad tech. But advertising spends keep going up, brand… more ›

• Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

  July 15, 2025

  Andrew Wylie, the world’s most renowned – and for a long time its most reviled – literary agent, is 76 years old. Over the past four decades, he has reshaped… more ›

• Primitive

  July 9, 2025

  The accumulation is called primitive because it predates the new world. more ›

• JS: The iconic magazine which ‘invented’ the Indian teenager

  July 9, 2025

  When JS exploded onto the scene in February 1967, featuring The Beatles on its first cover, it quickly captured the zeitgeist of the urban youth of a nation grappling with… more ›

• Exposure

  July 1, 2025

  Way it works when you want to hide a secret is you tell a good story about it. It’s not lying, more like camouflage. more ›

• Providence

  February 20, 2025

  He’s trained in building bridges, literally, but by now he’s become used to blowing them up – it’s 1941 and everyone needs to adapt. more ›

• Hauka

  July 26, 2024

  Becoming your enemy is the deadliest and most effective strategy at your disposal, and one that should be avoided at any cost. more ›