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Apposition
Personal blog · apposition.substack.comculturephilosophy
Apposition is a personal blog at apposition.substack.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Burnout Society”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for essays on politics and economics, including passport history, surveillance, capitalism and burnout. The comments cite its passport history piece and its burnout essay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about something.
Most-linked posts?
- The Burnout Society2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-17
What Hacker News says?
Well there is an interesting history to passports. This article does a decent job of outlining how they morphed from a tool to help fight the Spanish Flu to what we see today. https://apposition.substack.com/p/papers-please Also there is quite a bit of economic work that showcases the positive impact of removing such stringent barriers to the free movement of people.
Comment linking /p/papers-please
on “The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out”Submitted The Burnout Society as a story · 277 points
HN discussionByung-Chul Han seems to share your opinion about capistalism there's a quote along the lines of "capitalism is not a political question it is a force of nature which must be tamed" [1] [1] https://apposition.substack.com/p/the-burnout-society I think that when a cooperative relationship is reduced market-trade (money in exchange for goods by well defined contract laws) it's at its minimum. for example, one may trade…
Comment linking /p/the-burnout-society
on “Putin’s last stand How to lose a war simply by starting one”Submitted A Notoriously Chancy Business: The Nobel Literature Prize as a story · 1 points
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