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What Marco Polo had and didn't have
No freedom.
1 hr ago • Dr Cristian Ispir
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Read them as though they were still alive
Dec 18, 2024 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Humble origins, extraordinary complexity
Dec 13, 2024 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Storytelling and immersion metrics
Aug 22, 2025 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Spotty camels and naming things we've never seen before
What does the mind do when it encounters something it has never seen before, not something slightly unfamiliar, not a variation on a known theme, but…
Apr 17 • Dr Cristian Ispir
The comfort zone of aporia
We are not good at not knowing.
Apr 13 • Dr Cristian Ispir
The past that speaks now
The medieval artist setting a Roman triumph in a Gothic city was not confused about history, but was making a claim about it.
Apr 10 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Anagoge
It is Good Friday today, when no word seems good enough to graze on air.
Apr 3 • Dr Cristian Ispir
Time is not given
The history of the 25 of March reveals how creatively we mark the passage of time
Mar 30 • Dr Cristian Ispir
The deception game
Everyone has opinions on artificial intelligence.
Mar 27 • Dr Cristian Ispir
My italics
There is a convention so unremarkable it barely registers, tucked into footnotes and parenthetical asides: my italics, my emphasis.
Mar 23 • Dr Cristian Ispir
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A Substack by Cristian Ispir discussing history, book cultures and social commentary, always from the perspective of a life-immersed historian seeking to bridge the ancient and the (late/post/hyper)-modern worlds. Posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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