Peter Ayolov
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Peter Ayolov’s key contribution to media theory is the development of the "Propaganda 2.0" or the "manufacture of dissent" model, which he details in his 2024 book, The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent.
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When Images Refuse Ownership
The history of modern art repeatedly demonstrates a stubborn truth: no image can ever be owned absolutely. Forms circulate, poses migrate, gestures recur, and meanings survive only insofar as they continue to work on people. Copyright, originality, and authorship may function as legal or institutional devices, but aesthetically they are always provisional. What ultimately matters is not where an image comes from, but whether it generates a lived response — a mood, a tension, a sense of story. Few contemporary paintings illustrate this more clearly than The Singing Butler (1992) by Jack Vettriano, a work that has become both one of the most reproduced images in Britain and one of the most contested.
By Peter Ayolova day ago in Art
Notes from a Quoting Mind: On Language, Power, and Repetition
Homo Citans: The Quoting Man Against Originality Homo citans names the human as a quoting animal, a being who speaks by repeating, citing, echoing, and rearranging the words of others. Every sentence enters the world already inhabited: by traditions, concepts, metaphors, and rhythms that precede the speaker. To cite is therefore not an exception of scholarly life but its default condition. Researchers, writers, and thinkers are links in a chain, not origins; they validate knowledge by showing where it comes from, how it travelled, and whom it passed through. Citation is thus not merely a technical practice but an ethical acknowledgement of interdependence, a recognition that thought emerges collectively rather than individually.
By Peter Ayolov5 days ago in Writers
The One Problem
(This essay transforms the fragmented material into a single philosophical, future-oriented but non-naive vision. It treats humanity’s problems as one problem: governance understood as the art of living together over time, under shared responsibility, memory, and judgement. It avoids utopian innocence, and stages the solution historically: 2026, 2050, 2075, 2100.)
By Peter Ayolov7 days ago in Earth
The Obsolete Industry Dilemma
The Obsolete Industry Dilemma: What If the World Stopped Inertia-Production for One Year? Imagine not a technological breakthrough, not a green miracle, but a simple interruption. For one year, the world stops inertia-production: the endless manufacture of goods, services, movements, and institutions that persist not because they are needed, but because stopping them would expose how deeply human life has been reorganised around motion without purpose. This is not merely a pause in car production or construction or transport. It is a pause in the logic that turns people into components, societies into mechanisms, and the planet into an enormous clockwork Earth, rotating endlessly through repetition, habit, and systemic momentum.
By Peter Ayolov7 days ago in Humans
The Automotive Dilemma
The Automotive Dilemma: What If the World Stopped Making Cars for One Year? Imagine a global pause button. For twelve months, the automotive industry stops producing new cars. No new petrol cars, no new EVs. Instead, governments, manufacturers, and suppliers redirect their full capacity to one task: retrofitting existing cars with electric motors and batteries. It sounds like a thought experiment, but the numbers behind it reveal a startling dilemma.
By Peter Ayolov7 days ago in Critique
Electrifying the Existing Fleet
Electrifying the Existing Fleet: National Retrofitting as an Industrial and Climate Strategy Abstract The large-scale electrification of used internal combustion engine vehicles through retrofitting has emerged as a contested but increasingly plausible strategy within circular economy and climate policy frameworks. Rather than relying exclusively on the production of new electric vehicles, national-scale conversion programmes propose extending the life of existing vehicle fleets, particularly for government and commercial use. This article analyses the environmental rationale, economic viability, industrial constraints, policy landscape, and consumer adoption challenges associated with used-car electrification. Drawing on European case studies, cost comparisons, and current incentives, it argues that retrofitting is not a universal substitute for new electric vehicles but represents a strategically efficient solution for specific use cases, especially urban fleets operating on predictable routes.
By Peter Ayolov7 days ago in Futurism
