Archive - Mikhail’s Substack

September 2025

The Palimpsest City: A Philosophical Journey Through Gdańsk

Like ancient parchment bearing traces of multiple texts, Gdańsk reveals layers of meaning that have been written, erased, and written over again...

Sep 21 •

Mikhail Minakov

Archipelago Germania

Travel Notes from Germany’s Border to Border, from the Never-Ending Dawn to Eternally Delayed Dusk

Sep 11 •

Mikhail Minakov

The Age of Will: When Philosophy Meets the Zeitgeist (And Actually Has Something to Say)

The latest Ideology and Politics Journal tackles the defining question of our time—and proves that rigorous thinking still matters in an age of…

Sep 10 •

Mikhail Minakov

The Audacity of Spanning: On Bridges and the Human Compulsion to Connect

In fog and twilight, across seven European cities, the camera reveals what philosophers have long suspected: that our most confident gestures toward…

Sep 6 •

Mikhail Minakov

The Last Revolutions? Utopian Energy, Revolutionary Dysfunction, and the End of Modernity

After living through multiple revolutions from 1991 to 2019, I've come to believe we may be witnessing the end of revolution itself as modernity's…

Sep 5 •

Mikhail Minakov

Athens: The Mother-City of All Philosophers (And Their Most Beautiful Executioner)

Athens stands before us like a marble riddle wrapped in Mediterranean sunlight, the eternal mother-city of all who dare to think.

Sep 2 •

Mikhail Minakov

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