Soft Power

Burning Alone

Reflections on the philosophical spirit of Burning Man

Sep 16, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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July 2025

Building better handles

What does empowerment really mean?

Jul 26, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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Aching muscles, aching minds

A defense of meaningful work in a world that dreams of automating it away

Jul 10, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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June 2025

What resists measure

What is lost when we flatten human worth to our intelligence?

Jun 21, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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Introducing Soft Power

Evolving the Luftmensch

Jun 10, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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April 2025

The persistence of memory

What happens to our minds when machines no longer forget?

Apr 28, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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Deus ex machina

Freedom and its discontents

Apr 19, 2025 • Ashley Zhang

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August 2024

Intimations of immortality

Meditations on a WALL-E future

Aug 31, 2024 • Ashley Zhang

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Ecologies of care

Reimagining relations beyond domination and subjugation

Aug 1, 2024 • Ashley Zhang

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June 2024

Custodian of human enchantment

On AI and the human good — and what I'm working on

Jun 27, 2024 • Ashley Zhang

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December 2023

Do something that won’t compute

On Wendell Berry and true liberation

Dec 1, 2023 • Ashley Zhang

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October 2023

Within me there lay an invincible summer

Flourishing in times of grief and darkness

Oct 19, 2023 • Ashley Zhang

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