This page brings together a growing selection of my published writing across different fields. Entries may be grouped into thematic sections over time, and each item includes a brief description and a link to the original publication.
Art, Technology, and Political Economy
- Spotification: The Shift of the Economic Model in the Music Industry — Blindfield Journal (March 31, 2026)
An analysis of how streaming platforms reshape power balances and economic relationships among artists, labels, and platforms in the music economy.
https://blindfieldjournal.com/2026/03/31/spotification-the-shift-of-the-economic-model-in-the-music-industry/ - Meaning in the Making: Saussure, Narratives, and Large Language Models — Zenodo (February 21, 2026)
A short reflection on how Ferdinand de Saussure’s structuralism clarifies what LLMs do when they generate fluent text—strong sign-to-sign patterning—while showing where that fluency fails to become grounded, accountable human meaning.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18725677
Society, Politics, and Political Economy
- From Opponents to Opposition: Exile, War, Class, Nostalgia, and the Iranian Left — Zamaneh Media (March 19, 2026)
A brief look at how repression, exile, and war have reshaped the Iranian left, while also reflecting on how diaspora media have given greater visibility to other political currents.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37887/ - War, Spectacle, and Internal Repression: Iran’s Regime Between Military Weakness and Fabricated Strength — Zamaneh Media (March 10, 2026)
An examination of the Islamic Republic’s pivot toward systemic repression, digital blackouts, and ideological spectacle, revealing a calculated wartime strategy designed to manufacture domestic control and neutralize dissent while meticulously masking the regime’s escalating internal fragilities.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37866/ - Dirty Purification in the Islamic Republic: Purity, Ummah, and Stain Immunity — Zamaneh Media (February 27, 2026)
A theoretical reading of how the Islamic Republic can recode repression as moral hygiene, casting dissent as contamination and violence as a righteous defense of a supposedly “clean” political order.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37832/ - Iran’s Political Capitalism and the Western Left’s Hesitation: How a Revolt Gets Filtered Through Ideology — Zamaneh Media (January 30, 2026)
A political-economic reading of Iran’s “political capitalism” and recurring revolt, alongside an argument about how parts of the Western left misrecognize uprising agency under geopolitical framing and information control.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37714/ - Iran’s Protest Cycles: Exclusion, Contention, and the Path to Anti-Discriminatory Politics — Zamaneh Media (January 12, 2026)
A compact framework for understanding recent protest waves as recurring cycles rooted in an exclusionary accumulation regime, pointing to anti-discrimination politics as a bridge across overlapping grievances.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/37641/