Texts by Aleksandra Phirt
Witchcraft
The history of medical thought reveals a recurring pattern: practices once considered legitimate, rational, and even progressive are, in later epochs, viewed as primitive, misguided, or symbolically adjacent to superstition.
Imagine Art
Art was long understood through the capacity to execute. The value of a work was measured by skill: the precision of the hand, control of material, the technical complexity of the process.
The Time
Time is often treated as a neutral backdrop to human activity, a silent framework within which life unfolds.
Judge
When a new technology appears, society's reaction is rarely neutral. Lack of understanding does not produce only curiosity, it often produces mystification.
Tokenized Morality
Morality has always had consequences, even when it was never systemically recorded. People remembered the behavior of others, formed conclusions, built or withdrew trust.
Fear Not
Changes that accompany the development of blockchain infrastructure are rarely experienced calmly. The technological layer itself is not the source of discomfort.
Part-time President
In the future, power will become less tied to the individual and increasingly embedded in structure.
Simplification
When observing the history of labour and creation, a recurring pattern becomes visible: each time technological or procedural progress simplifies the process of making something, a moral judgement emerges.
Argumentation
There is an assumption that thought must move along a predetermined path in order to be recognized as thought.
DAO
A DAO can be understood most precisely as a form of organization in which rules, governance, and the allocation of resources are embedded into executable structures.
Ideas
It is not commonly claimed that ideas belong to no one. On the contrary, the history of thought is structured around attribution.
Reflection
There is a tendency to perceive reality as a shared field in which everyone participates under the same conditions.
Shameless
There are moments when an individual decides to determine their identity independently.
Self-Regulation
Women very rarely observe other women completely neutrally. Even when there is friendship, closeness, or genuine affection, there is almost always a parallel process of silent internal positioning.
Adjusted Narrative
People rarely admit to themselves that they simply no longer have the capacity for someone. It feels much easier when a relationship can be explained through the other person's fault.
Pure Jealousy
Women struggle deeply with the feeling that they lost at something they genuinely wanted. Especially when another woman succeeds in an area that carries emotional importance inside their social circle.
The Winner Is Alone
It becomes deeply uncomfortable to stay close to someone who became significantly wealthier or socially more successful than the rest of the group.
Self-Serving Beauty Standards
Women very often try to improve their own position within the beauty hierarchy by changing the narrative around what beauty actually is.
A Stretch
Women very often try to emotionally negotiate with the beauty hierarchy in ways that are so transparent they become almost fascinating.