Raffaello Palandri

Perennial Learner, Author. Body, Mind, and Soul. Photography, Thoughts, Internal Martial Arts. Tantra, Occultism, Alchemy.

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Freedom #4

The final movement within this series does not seek to stabilise the revolutionary material configuration previously established because every stabilisation inevitably generates the conditions through which new structures of domination begin to crystallise, but instead subjects the entire architecture of freedom to a condition of permanent sociopolitical stress in which every institution, every…

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Real freedom

Real freedom persists as civilisation’s capacity to prevent any social form from permanently subordinating shared human existence.

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The world is something that we make

From today’s Book of the Day, I have chosen the following quote for a deeper analysis. “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy The sentence “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we…

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Book of the Day - The Utopia of Rules

Today’s Book of the Day is The Utopia of Rules, written by David Graeber in 2013 and published by Melville House. David Graeber (1961 – 2020) was an American anthropologist, political philosopher, historian of debt, and one of the most original critical thinkers of the early twenty first century, whose work consistently dissolved the artificial boundaries separating anthropology, economics,…

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Freedom #3

Once every stable definition of freedom has been dismantled and once every incompatible framework has been forced to coexist without permitting conceptual reconciliation, the philosophical reconstruction developed here ceases to interpret ἐλευθερία (eleutheria, freedom) as a category awaiting clarification and instead approaches it as the organising principle of an entirely different material…

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Photography of the Day - You what?

Nyx You what? – Photography by Raffaello Palandri

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The EU AI Act and the Illusion of Governance: Why Organisations That Replace Thinking With Systems Cannot Create Responsible AI

The EU AI Act is predominantly understood by European companies as a regulatory turning point, but the prevailing reaction to it already reveals the deeper problem that this regulation should force organisations to confront: instead of understanding the introduction of Artificial Intelligence as a fundamental challenge to the way organisations make decisions, distribute responsibility and…

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Der EU AI Act und die Illusion der Governance: Warum Organisationen, die Denken durch Systeme ersetzen, keine verantwortungsvolle KI hervorbringen können

Der EU AI Act wird in deutschen Unternehmen überwiegend als regulatorische Zäsur verstanden, aber die überwiegende Reaktion darauf zeigt bereits die tiefere Problematik, die diese Regulierung eigentlich sichtbar machen müsste: Statt die Einführung Künstlicher Intelligenz als fundamentale Herausforderung an die Art und Weise zu begreifen, wie Organisationen Entscheidungen treffen, Verantwortung…

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Freedom #2

Freedom, once the ontological foundations of the concept have been dissolved, does not reappear as a purified category waiting to be reconstructed upon a more stable foundation, because the disappearance of every singular definition does not produce conceptual emptiness but instead reveals a vast and contradictory field in which multiple incompatible meanings of liberation, autonomy, sovereignty,…

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Capitalism's freedom as unresolved confrontation

Freedom, in capitalism, remains an unresolved confrontation between competing visions, where incompatible meanings refuse closure within unstable social arrangements.

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Freedom #1

Freedom is perhaps the most abused concept in the entire history of political philosophy precisely because every civilisation, every empire, every state, every economic system, every theology, and every juridical architecture has attempted to naturalise its own mechanisms of domination by redefining coercion as liberty, dependence as autonomy, obedience as choice, and structural necessity as…

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Photography of the Day - Storm

Coming closer Storm – Photography by Raffaello Palandri

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From Process Thinking to Judgement: The Hidden Transformation Driven by Artificial Intelligence

Most discussions about Artificial Intelligence begin with models, data, computing power or regulatory requirements. This perspective is understandable, yet it remains incomplete because it treats AI primarily as a technological phenomenon. The real transformation is taking place elsewhere. It is changing the way organisations generate knowledge, make decisions and process uncertainty. In other…

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Vom Prozessdenken zur Urteilskraft: Die verborgene Transformation durch Künstliche Intelligenz

Die meisten Diskussionen über Künstliche Intelligenz beginnen mit Modellen, Daten, Rechenleistung oder regulatorischen Anforderungen. Diese Perspektive ist nachvollziehbar, greift jedoch zu kurz, weil sie KI als primär technisches Phänomen betrachtet. Die eigentliche Transformation vollzieht sich an einer anderen Stelle. Sie verändert die Art und Weise, wie Organisationen Wissen erzeugen,…

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Work #4

The collapse of existing sociopolitical arrangements is not interpreted as an accidental historical disruption but as the inevitable consequence of the progressive incompatibility between institutions organised around accumulation and a conception of work understood as the free expression of collective existence, because every social order reproduces itself through the assumptions embedded within…

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Capitalism's collapse

Capitalism’s collapse allows human activity to transcend economic measurement, reuniting work with life, contribution with meaning, and consciousness with shared creation.

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Work #3

Work is one of the fundamental categories through which the relationship between human beings, material reality, and collective existence becomes visible, because labour is not considered merely a practical mechanism through which individuals obtain resources but the primary field in which human capacities encounter the world, transform it, and participate in the continuous creation of shared…