Iason Athanasiadis

The at­tack on Thes­sa­loni­ki’s may­or by an­gry youth is symp­to­matic of na­tion-state de­cay af­flict­ing Greece and the re­gion.

Tech­nolo­gies that will shape our fu­ture are al­ready in play around us, and they will soon wreak hav­oc on our re­al­i­ty.

Af­ter six years of fi­nan­cial and so­cial cri­sis, will the refugees trapped in Athens de­stroy the city or spark a re­birth?

A monas­tic com­mu­ni­ty is slow­ly suc­cumb­ing to the net­work – is that a bad thing?

Greece finds it­self in the role of a Sisyphean cau­tion­ary tale, pre­served with­in the EU in a zom­bie lim­bo.

In an era of mass in­equal­i­ty, can a dig­i­tal panop­ti­con ban­ish priv­i­lege?

In a net­worked age, a but­ter­fly flut­ter­ing its wings in Tunisia can trig­ger a geopo­lit­i­cal storm in Brus­sels.

Refugees stream­ing into Eu­rope are vic­tims and agents of a mis­di­rect­ed moder­ni­ty that will trans­form our so­ci­eties.

Recog­nis­ing its sim­i­lar­i­ties with Libya should be Greece’s first step to­wards avoid­ing a sim­i­lar fate.

A con­flict­ed Greece re­veals how transna­tion­al utopias and vir­tu­al pur­ga­to­ries are re­plac­ing the na­tion state.