CHROMOLOGICAL
notes from a human agent in the age of existential polythreats
Shame
On May 4th 2025, The Guardian published an editorial titled The Guardian View on Israel’s Aid Blockade of Gaza: Hunger as a Weapon of War. It comes after 20 months of unabated atrocities and after two months of total blockade in Gaza. It is worth emphasising what total means here—that no food or medicine has…
Tiny Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Language, too, forces the air from the lungs. Reading Omar Akkad’s book was like finally being able to breathe out—a process of untying a knot deep inside the chest. It gave voice to the turmoil, the mess of emotions, I have felt but haven’t managed to articulate—least of all so beautifully. The book examines the…
Black Hole
The ceasefire has collapsed, spontaneously, like a wave function under observation of a city where children keep dying and new acronyms are birthed Wounded-Child-No-Surviving-Family Survinging-Child-No-Remaining-Limbs Where food keeps vanishing, electricity stops flowing, like a decree of nature Where fattened stray dogs roam quiet streets, Where bombs descend like rainfall, Skies of hellfire break the darkness …
The End of History
One year on, we have learned, my friend, That a child conceived in the womb of a would be terrorist in another lifetime, can be maimed, militarily detained, decimated with 60 gunshot wounds inside of an ambulance. This is just science, some play of probability, as calculable as the weather, so we must abide by…
Diary of a Genocide
1st March 2023 “I liked a tweet that called for the deletion of the village of Huwara, because I think that the village of Huwara should be wiped out. It is the state [of Israel] that should erase it.”- Bezalel Smotrich, Isreali Finance Minister 7th October 2023 “One goal Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow…
Infinite Fluent Nonsense
Despite the uncanny ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to almost convince us of personhood, they’ve been called “mouths without brains” capable of uttering “infinite fluent nonsense”1 by some experts. This is hardly an infliction limited only to artificially intelligent beings—small children are also extremely adept at infinite fluent nonsense as any parent or daycare…
Birth
The nurse pushes up the blunt end of the scalpel between my legs and a tremendous gush follows. The fountainhead of life. My husband, standing by my head, laughs in surprise. There is immense relief as my insides return from the verge of explosion. Timestamp: t – 10 hours. Three hours later there is still…
Chromological 