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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 16/09/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 14/09/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 13/09/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 05/09/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 25/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 20/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 11/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 04/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 03/07/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 07/05/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 01/05/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 29/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 28/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 27/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 25/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 16/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 10/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 01/04/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 31/03/2026
🌍Democracies fray, embassies close, and “spectacle diplomacy” replaces statecraft—while war and energy shocks quietly rewrite the rules of sovereignty. From Orbán’s vetoes to Antarctic claims: institutions are thinning just as crises demand more of them. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 29/03/2026
🤖 While war reshapes energy and borders, AI is quietly reshaping what it means to work, create, and belong. From agentic systems replacing cognitive labor to algorithms driving culture and surveillance, the shift isn’t just technological—it’s social. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 28/03/2026
🌍 This week’s news reads like a “polycrisis” in motion: war closing Hormuz, oil reshaping alliances, AI demanding more energy, and even culture becoming marketable catastrophe. The pattern? A world where geopolitics, markets, and meaning blur. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 27/03/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 27/03/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 26/03/2026
🧩The real story of 2026 isn’t any single crisis—it’s how everything connects. War reshapes energy → markets shift → culture follows. Cities, art, AI, geopolitics orbit one idea: maintenance over disruption. The edge may belong to who keeps things going. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 25/03/2026
🎭Culture reveals a strange dual truth: under bombs, people still seek beauty and meaning—while markets turn nostalgia (anime, design, food) into assets and institutions quietly censor or legitimize what counts as art. Resilience is the persistence of form open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 24/03/2026
🏙️Cities today are held together less by grand visions than by quiet maintenance: Lisbon balancing growth with housing, Shanghai blending brands with identity, Dubai redefining belonging. Cities with the ability to keep places liveable, repairable, shared. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 23/03/2026
🌐 The liberal order isn’t collapsing with a bang—but a shrug: allies refuse to follow, rivals play the long game, conflicts splinter attention. From chokepoints to aid-for-minerals deals, power turns transactional. A world moving to negotiated survival. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 22/03/2026
⚖️ In 2026, power feels less like strategy and more like performance without a script: wars harden adversaries and reward rivals, belonging is reinvented (UAE), politics becomes spectacle (rapper-PMs), and even banknotes spark identity fights. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 21/03/2026
🌍March feels paradoxical: anime at Christie’s, Shanghai booming—yet the Strait of Hormuz disrupts global energy. Not contradiction, but connection. As fragility rises (war, supply shocks, AI), so does our appetite for durability—heritage, repair, meaning. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 20/03/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 20/03/2026
🌍 We’re living in an “everything crisis”: a missile strike can ripple into food prices, AI systems, African debt, and bond markets—while fashion weeks, art fairs carry on. It’s not chaos but hyper-connected fragility: interdependence without coordination. open.substack.com/pub/openacce...
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 19/03/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 18/03/2026
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The Open Access Blogs @openaccessblogs.substack.com · 17/03/2026
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