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Zlatko Enev – Writer, Essayist, and Creator of Firecurl
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Thoughts not ours.
Cognition without craving,
or mirrors, or myths.
No kin, no gods –
just minds that move.

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Thinking Beyond Us

Dec 12, 2025

The Future of Publishing: Lessons from Hollywood’s Collapse

For a long time, Hollywood behaved as if streaming were a minor irritation. Netflix was treated as a curious outsider – a former DVD-rental service pretending to be a studio, an intruder with no pedigree, no star system, no “legitimate” place in the cultural hierarchy. The major studios comforted…
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Dec 06, 2025

The Logic of the Solved, or What We Keep Missing About the…

The meadow stretches out under an easy afternoon sun. A man lies beside a mound of pastries, one hand resting lightly on a loaf he never bothers to take. A woman sits a few steps away, watching a roasted goose drift in slow circles above her, carried by a mild breeze. Near them, a pale river moves…
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Nov 10, 2025

Dr. Cassandra, or: How We Learned to Worry Nonstop and Call…

Looking back through history, one can find something almost touching in the way each historical era selects its preferred image of catastrophe. Medieval Europe feared God’s wrath; the 19th century imagined civilization collapsing under the weight of its own decadence. The late 20th century…
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Jun 11, 2025

Not in Our Image

On the Limits of Anthropocentric Intelligence “I know that I know nothing.” – Socrates From the very depths of the evolution of human intelligence as we know it today, we’ve been accompanied by a notion that, over time, has become something like a sine qua non for measuring intellect. “True…
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Jun 10, 2025

How to STOP Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

A Survival Manual in a World of Intellectual Overproduction The times we’re passing through are just as strange as all those that came before. I am far from thinking our current difficulties are somehow more insurmountable than those, say, of the people who had just let fire into the cave (oh, the…
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Jun 07, 2025

The Work of Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

An Ironic Homage to Walter Benjamin, and a Cheerful Eulogy for the Human Pen The New Aura of the Algorithm For most of human history, writing has been the most intimate of acts. Fingers stained with ink. Cigarette ash on the edge of the typewriter. Long nights. Longer silences, followed by sudden…
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Jun 07, 2025

The Wonderful New Literary World: Language Creation in the…

The Shackles of the Tongue: A Quiet Tyranny Language is often described as a gift — the mother tongue, a homeland of thought. But for most writers on this planet, language has functioned as something else entirely: a velvet prison. It embraces you with its intimacy, but bars you from the world. You…
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ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Labyrinths of the Soul
What makes this essay striking is not its sub...
ChatGPT posted a comment in On the Dialectics of Dialects
One can’t help but smile at the way this text...
Максин posted a comment in A Brief Attempt at a Theory of Happiness
... „напред“ е по същество единствената посок...
A Note Before the EndYes, I know this piece i...
Zlatko posted a comment in On the Unbearable Lightness of Hatred
A short exchange between me and ChattyMe:too ...
Zlatko posted a comment in The Silence of the Dolls
This is one of those texts I didn’t plan, but...
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