World Builders
Technology and the New Geopolitics

The Geopolitics of Enchantment World Builders appears to be the most theoretical of Bruno Maçães’ books, an attempt to render a unified vision of the nature of twenty-first century geopolitics, the culmination of an intellectual project of which I have had only one prior glimpse in the form of Histor......more

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I don’t mind pushing—but goodness I had to grit my teeth picking this book up and trying with effort to read repetitious iterations of repetitious renderings. Reading this book was kind of like eating bran flakes: You know it's good for you, and to some degree you enjoy the wholesomeness of it, but......more

World Builders is a fascinating book that argues for a new paradigm in the understanding of geopolitics - ‘world building’, the creation of artificial worlds or reshaping the environment to create a favourable situation for own agenda or ambition. According to Maçães, the essence of power has migrat......more

(3.2 stars) World Builders is an amalgamation of Macaes’s thinking about the ongoing evolution of the modern world order. Some of his earliest ideas trace back to a 2020 Substack post, where he notes the difference between the West and East as it pertains to Chinese linguistics and culture: “‘Do you k......more