From Nepal banning TikTok to Morocco’s “hospitals, not stadiums” protests, Gen Z is turning bans and failures into meme-powered revolts. This episode dives into Habermas’ public sphere, Debord’s spectacle, DeLanda’s assemblages, Anderson’s imagined communities, and Butler’s performative politics to show how youth aren’t apathetic — they’re just organizing through Discord servers, anime flags, and ironic cosplay. The revolution posts first, marches later.

From WWE and UFC mega-events to comedy festivals and Formula 1, Saudi Arabia is buying global attention to rebrand repression as spectacle. This episode unpacks media events, Debord’s spectacle, Gramsci’s hegemony, Said’s orientalism, and Bourdieu’s symbolic capital to show how authoritarianism launders its image with pyros, punchlines, and billion-dollar checks. Authoritarianism, now available in pay-per-view.

Benjamin Netanyahu calls social media a weapon — and Israel is treating your feed like frontline terrain. From bot networks to state-aligned talk shows, narrative has become artillery. I unpack the propaganda model, hyperreality, Foucault’s power/knowledge, and Arendt’s “lie in politics” to show how perception itself is militarized. Forget war rooms — this is war feeds.