Book of the Day
Whispers of the Forgotten. AI-Generated.
Whispers of the Forgotten The old town of Marlowe had long since surrendered to time. Its streets were cracked, and the paint on its buildings peeled like the skin of a sunburned traveler. Windows gaped like empty eyes, and the few who still lived there spoke in low tones, wary of drawing attention. Some said the town was haunted—not by spirits, but by memories, lingering and restless, refusing to fade.
By Samaan Ahmad16 days ago in BookClub
The Last Message. AI-Generated.
The Last Message Rain drummed softly against the windows as Ayaan sat alone in his dimly lit room. His phone lay on the table, glowing faintly with a notification he had been both dreading and hoping for. The message came from Zara, his closest friend, the one person who had understood him better than anyone else ever had. But this wasn’t an ordinary message. It carried a weight he could feel even through the screen—a heaviness that made his chest tighten.
By Samaan Ahmad16 days ago in BookClub
Elena had always loved libraries. The quiet aislesthe scent of old
Elena had always loved libraries. The quiet aisles, the scent of old paper, the way stories seemed to hum beneath the silence — it was her sanctuary. But the library she stumbled upon that autumn evening was unlike any she had ever seen.
By Alhouci boumizzi18 days ago in BookClub
Narrative Affect and the End of Public Opinion
In Narrative Affect: The End of Public Opinion, Peter Ayolov advances a forceful and timely argument: that contemporary mass media no longer operates primarily through persuasion, belief formation, or the shaping of public opinion, but through the orchestration of affective environments that precede and structure thought itself. The book proposes not merely a revision of existing media theory, but a conceptual displacement of one of its foundational assumptions—that influence flows through opinion. What governs contemporary public life, Ayolov argues, is not what people think, but what they are made to feel before thinking begins.
By Peter Ayolov18 days ago in BookClub
Paper Walls and Iron Lies
Paper Walls and Iron Lies The city of Verdant Heights was a maze of glimmering skyscrapers and narrow alleyways where sunlight struggled to touch the ground. Behind the glossy facades and sleek towers, secrets festered, hidden beneath layers of civility and whispered agreements. Among the inhabitants was Ayaan, a young journalist who had grown tired of living in a world where truth was a luxury few could afford.
By Samaan Ahmad18 days ago in BookClub
The Day Honesty Became a Crime. AI-Generated.
The Day Honesty Became a Crime In the city of Daryan, honesty had once been a cherished virtue. People smiled when a neighbor returned a lost wallet, praised a student who admitted a mistake, and trusted each other with the smallest secrets. But change, as it often does, crept in silently.
By Samaan Ahmad18 days ago in BookClub
Ink Costs Less Than Blood, But Not Today. AI-Generated.
Ink Costs Less Than Blood, But Not Today The slogan was painted on the wall outside the newsroom in thick black letters: Ink Costs Less Than Blood. It had been there since before I joined, a reminder passed down like an heirloom. We said it to comfort ourselves when threats came in by phone, when anonymous notes slipped under the door, when our names appeared online with red circles drawn around them. We said it to believe that words—printed, published, preserved—could stop violence before it spilled.
By Samaan Ahmad18 days ago in BookClub
The Conspicuous Elite
Peter Ayolov, Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, 2026 Abstract By 2026, the institutional power elite described by C. Wright Mills has not dissolved but reappeared as a conspicuous platform elite, whose authority depends on continuous visibility, biographical myth, and algorithmic amplification. Power is exercised less through discrete command and deliberation than through spectacle, attention, and the conversion of domination into an aspirational life-model. Rereading The Power Elite from the standpoint of 2026, the article foregrounds Mills’s 1956 warning about ‘higher immorality’: a structural condition in which decision-makers at the summits of corporate, political, and military power are insulated from the moral consequences of their actions by distance, scale, bureaucracy, and abstraction. The article argues that higher immorality was never a period detail of mid-century America but an early diagnosis of a durable logic of modern power that has since intensified under platform capitalism. In the contemporary environment of celebrity governance, technical delegation, and algorithmic mediation, higher immorality operates less through secrecy and denial than through public performance and normalisation. In this sense, elite rule culminates in what this article calls ‘The Conspicuous Elite’ or ‘Platform Elite’, where authority is no longer concealed by institutions but performed openly through visibility, narrative, and attention.
By Peter Ayolov20 days ago in BookClub
Trinity 3
Trinity 3 is the story of my reincarnation journey and twin flame. I wrote it to confirm to myself that i did in fact have past lives and to also tell the stories of my past lives so they could all finally rest in peace. my past lives do in fact have effect on my present and final incarnation in this life. writing this was healing and therapuetic. this did help me to see myself for myself and that is all i wanted to see.
By Revista Miko:XCI 21 days ago in BookClub
The Art of Digital Intentionality: Reclaiming . AI-Generated.
In the modern era, the average person checks their smartphone dozens of times a day. We live in a state of perpetual connectivity, where the boundaries between our physical lives and our digital interfaces have become increasingly blurred. While technology has provided us with unprecedented access to information and global community, it has also introduced a unique set of psychological challenges: fragmented attention, decision fatigue, and the subtle erosion of presence.
By Chris Swain24 days ago in BookClub
