A line of inquiry

Essays and research notes on culture, identity, and the infrastructures shaping social cohesion

This publication brings together essays and research notes written across different stages of my work.

Some of the texts published here first appeared in media outlets and are republished as part of a broader archive of ideas. Others will document ongoing research into how contemporary societies organize identity, conflict, and collective life.

For more than fifteen years, my work has explored masculinity, care, and cultural transformation as windows into deeper social dynamics. These themes have served as social laboratories for understanding how cultural narratives, institutions, and power structures shape the conditions of coexistence.

More recently, that inquiry has expanded.

Increasingly, many of the tensions shaping contemporary societies are no longer produced only by institutions, political actors, or traditional media, but also by algorithmic systems that structure attention, visibility, and identity formation in digital environments.

Recommender systems and algorithmic amplification are quietly reshaping the environments where narratives form, conflicts emerge, and collective identities are defined.

This raises a broader question that increasingly guides my work:

How do the infrastructures that organize attention and identity reshape the conditions of social cohesion?

This space brings together the trajectory that led to that question and the research that follows from it.

Some posts revisit earlier essays on care, culture, masculinity, and social systems. Others will explore emerging work on algorithmic amplification, identity ecosystems, and systemic risks to social cohesion.

Together, they document a single line of inquiry: how the infrastructures that organize collective life are changing, and what that means for the future of our societies.