Favourite Albums 2025
(Some of) My album choices from 2025
Latest
🔴 Viewpoint: The Machine’s Tempo
We are transitioning, with breathtaking and heartbreaking speed, from a species that contemplates to a species that merely processes.
NeXus #0006
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The Bridge on the Drina: A Chronicle Etched in Stone and Time
Elegant, resilient, scarred by time and conflict, yet still standing.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Reflections on Benjamín Labatut's 'When We Cease to Understand the World'
NeXus #0005
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In the Fog with Karen
Reflections on Memory, Identity, and the Mysteries We Carry
🔴 Viewpoint: How Cities Reshape the Soul
A Journey Through Stone and Self
Bearing Witness to a Poisoned Inheritance: Isabela Figueiredo's Notebook of Colonial Memories
A work of such unflinching honesty, such controlled fury, that reading it feels less like turning pages and more like bearing witness to an exorcism.
Finding Eternal Connection: A Journey Through "Watching Over Her" by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
In the words that Jean-Baptiste Andrea has given us through Mimo and Viola, we find an invitation to examine how we watch over those we love, and how, in turn, we allow ourselves to be watched over—seen, protected, and celebrated despite our imperfections.
🔴 Viewpoint: The Velvet Prison
An Architecture of Voluntary Captivity in the Digital Age
🔴 Viewpoint: The Art of Thinking in an Age of Information Abundance
Why Critical Thinking Has Become Our Most Essential Survival Skill
Books
Adrift in Barcelona: Unpacking Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Southern Seas
It transcends genre conventions, using the framework of a detective investigation to offer what Montalbán aimed for across the series: a "moral chronicle" of Spain's tumultuous Transición, the period of transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970s.
Viewpoint
🔴 Viewpoint: Viewpoint: Can AI Truly Understand Us?
Can AI comprehend who a person is, beyond simply processing what they say?
Books
🔴 Viewpoint: Tolkien's Legendarium - Lessons in Narrative, Lore, and Lifelong Re-reading
There exists a peculiar alchemy in the way certain literary worlds seize not just our attention, but our very soul—and Tolkien's Middle-earth has been, for me, such a transformative landscape.
Books
🔴 Viewpoint: Finding Meaning in the Muddle - Why Philosophical Fiction Speaks to Our Uncertain Times
There are moments, often arriving unbidden during times of collective unease or personal crossroads, when the stories we turn to feel less like escape and more like engagement.
Nexus
NeXus #0004
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Viewpoint
🔴 Viewpoint: 7 Sci-Fi Novels That Teach Us About Being Human in the Age of AI
Seven remarkable science fiction novels that have shaped my understanding of the complex dance between humans and artificial intelligence.
Personal
May the 4th Be With You: A Journey Through Time and Space
It’s a day when the Force feels just a little bit stronger in our everyday world.
Nexus
NeXus #0003
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Education
🔴 Viewpoint: Is the Lecture Dead? Rethinking the Future of University Teaching
Understanding the lecture's past and present limitations, alongside its potential enduring value, is critical for charting a course toward a more effective future for higher education pedagogy.
Nexus
NeXus #0002
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Education
🔴 Viewpoint: On Education, Critical Autonomy, and Freedom in the Digital Age
While historical moments like Portugal's Carnation Revolution secured essential political liberties and freedom from direct state censorship, realising genuine freedom in the contemporary digital era demands the cultivation of critical autonomy.
AI
🔴 Viewpoint: AI Agents as Coworkers - Are We Close to Clocking In the Virtual Workforce?
Recent developments in artificial intelligence aren't just approaching science fiction scenarios—they're actively reshaping our understanding of what's possible.