Books
Addicted
Addiction is usually discussed through its object: alcohol, opioids, gambling, food, sex, phones, games. Addicted asks a harder question: what is the substance or behavior doing for the person, and what must replace that function if recovery is to last?nnDrawing on history, neuroscience, clinical observation, public-health evidence, policy, mutual help, and the arts, Niklas Selenius - Osterman examines addiction as both a medical condition and a human way of coping. The book asks what recovery should mean beyond survival: agency, a home, work, connection, and a life that no longer needs the same escape.
While We Were Sleeping
The world was set on fire while the language of progress kept reassuring us that everything would be fine. This book follows the institutions now being remade by artificial intelligence: work, ownership, finance, public life, surveillance, and the fragile bargain that has tied economic contribution to dignity and political power.nnIt asks a question that cannot be postponed: if machines produce more and people are needed less, who owns the systems, who receives the returns, and what remains of democratic life when the old bargain begins to fail?