Superb Powers

Superb Powers · December 08, 2025

Beyond systems of improvement lies the raw territory of unruly thought and action. Here dwells unburdened embodiment. It is in this space that the Shiver Smile Sigh Etiquette Academy takes shape — my latest project, an initiative designed to activate the virtuosities and impulses that our optimization-driven systems so often dismiss.

Superb Powers · December 08, 2025

Corporations love their visions of “future skills”: adaptability, resilience, emotional intelligence — neatly packaged virtues for a world in perpetual acceleration. But whose future are we preparing for, and what do we lose when every skill serves the market? This essay unpacks the myth of employability and reclaims the right to be unfit.

Superb Powers · December 08, 2025

We’ve made behavior a commodity: optimized, measured, and moralized. But the seriousness with which we regulate our own gestures borders are absurd. This essay exposes the comedy of our compliance culture — the big and small rituals of self-surveillance that sabotage virtue.

Superb Powers · December 08, 2025

If our behavior is caged, our language builds prison bars. To act differently, we must first speak differently. This essay opens “word spaces” that serve as conceptual playgrounds where new human possibilities can breathe. It’s not theory; it’s a practice of linguistic emotional exercise.

Superb Powers · December 08, 2025

Series Introduction The seams are still holding. The façade still works. But somewhere between self-discipline and constant self-optimization, the timer is already running. Human behavior is a world wedged in by terms such as skills, capacities, and talents. Constantly under the pressure to explain and mold human identity. My consistent persistence in juggling these terms has made me increasingly sensitive to their hidden doctrines. If you want to hear which encounters and projects formed my...