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/
Society, Politics, and Political Economy
- Poverty in Four Instalments: A Note on SnappPay and Poverty Monetization — Zamaneh Media (October 15, 2026)
An examination of how instalment-payment platforms such as SnappPay turn declining purchasing power into opportunities for accumulation, exploring merchant commissions, consumer dependency, and the relationship between platform capitalism and Iran’s political-economic structure.
https://en.radiozamaneh.com/38608/ - 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/
Substack Essays
On Substack, I publish research-informed essays focused primarily on Norwegian society, exploring questions of political economy, welfare, and lived experience. These essays connect broader social and economic structures with the material realities of everyday life.
- Dugnad, Volunteer Work, and Predatory Expropriation: A Comparative Reflection on Unpaid Work in Norway — Substack (July 10, 2026)
A political-economic examination of unpaid volunteer work in Norway, contrasting dugnad’s collective reciprocity with forms of volunteering shaped by labour-market insecurity, employability pressures, and the risk of predatory expropriation.
https://sepehrhaghighi.substack.com/p/dugnad-volunteer-work-and-predatory - Chronic Pain, Administrative Care, and the Split Between the Material and Symbolic Body — Substack (June 9, 2026)
An examination of how chronic pain is translated into medical documentation and welfare assessments in Norway, exploring the tensions between lived bodily suffering, administrative recognition, income security, and care.
https://sepehrhaghighi.substack.com/p/chronic-pain-administrative-care - Functioning Under Damage: Clinical Care, Productivity, and the Management of Social Suffering — Substack (May 11, 2026)
An essay on the tensions between clinical care, social suffering, and the restoration of work capacity, examining how Norway’s welfare and healthcare systems respond to distress rooted partly in social and economic conditions.
https://sepehrhaghighi.substack.com/p/functioning-under-damage-clinical
