Anton Stjepan Cebalo

Archive

essays

• Loitering Towards War | Aeon (July 2026)
• The False Certainty of Technocracy [Book Review] | Cracks in Postmodernity (June 2026)
• Welcome to the Technocracy | Do Not Research (March 2026)
• Technocracy 2.0 | The Brooklyn Rail (Feb 2026)
• A New Anti-Political Fervor | Noema Magazine (Jan 2026)
• Who Are Today's Nihilists? | Café Américain (Nov 2025)
• Living in a Time of Psychopolitics | Do Not Research (April 2025)
• Midcentury Planners Demolished America's Social Fabric | Palladium Magazine (March 2023)
• Is America suffering a 'social recession'? | The Guardian (Jan 2023)

columns

3 Quarks Daily (2023; 2026–)

• Talking Yourself into Catastrophe (July 2026)
• The Nonsense World of Daniil Kharms (July 2026)
• The Mind of Gavrilo Princip (June 2026)
• A Lament for the Earth (from an Unknown Poet) (May 2026)
• The New Millennium (April 2026)
• The First Eco-Horror Film (March 2026)
• The Internet Was Imagined Before World War I (Feb 2026)
• On the Importance of Roots (Nov 2023)
• The Man Who Shredded the Newspaper (Sept 2023)

self-published at novum.substack.com

• Turbo-Culture (April 2026)
• The World of Dreampolitik (Feb 2026)
• First Contact with America (Jan 2026)
• Within the Context of No Context, Revisited (Dec 2025)
• Living with Too Many Stories (Oct 2025)
• Nothing Left Inside (Oct 2025)
• Alarm and Overload (Aug 2025)
• On Weird America (Aug 2025)
• The Internet as a Giant Skinner Box (June 2025)
• The New Vertigo Years (June 2025)
• When Writers Become Politicians (Aug 2024)
• The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) (May 2024)
• Symphonies of Color (Jan 2024)
• The Return of the World's Fair (Dec 2023)
• There Once Was an Empire (Nov 2023)
• The Purpose of the Novel (May 2023)
• When America Received a Message from the Future (April 2023)
• Panic in the Skies (Feb 2023)
• How the Locomotive Became a Metaphor for Modernity (Jan 2023)
• Maybe Real Modernity Has Only Just Started (Dec 2022)
• What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates? (Dec 2022)
• Politics Is Becoming an Ant Mill (Nov 2022)
• A Deep Dive Down the Memory Hole (Nov 2022)
• Why Novum? (Oct 2022)
• A World of Civilization States (Sept 2022)
• A Past War Looms Over the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict (June 2022)
• Too Many Wannabe Elites: A Story of Russia (and Possibly America) (May 2022)
• Uncertain Futures (April 2022)
• The 19th Century Returns (March 2022)