P. Tolkachev
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Essays at the intersection of technology and economics: on platforms, labour, institutions, and how infrastructure and product decisions shape behaviour.

All writing — 10.
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Feature flags as micropolitics
Who decides what you see in a product, and how — a question of power, not configuration.
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April 2026Digital culture & labour
02
The entrepreneur as capitalism's ideal subject
A short history of the figure an economic order offers up as the norm.
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February 2026Entrepreneurial subjectivity
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Russian capitalism and its entrepreneur
Between state, market and survival: the context in which the figure is formed.
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December 2025Russian capitalism
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The engineer as a social type
What it means to «write code» in the platform economy — and who the work makes you.
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October 2025Digital culture & labour
05
Platform versus institution
What changes when the infrastructure of shared life becomes private.
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August 2025Platforms & infrastructure
06
Work that does not look like work
Development, creativity and a new discipline that can never be finished.
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June 2025Digital culture & labour
07
Internal tools as a form of power
What a team uses every day tells you more about a company than its product does.
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April 2025Platforms & infrastructure
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Subjectivity by design
How product decisions shape behaviour — and what they make of the user.
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February 2025Entrepreneurial subjectivity
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From craft to service
What digitalisation does to the very idea of a profession.
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December 2024Digital culture & labour
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Architecture and ontology
Why splitting a system into modules is always a choice about how the world is built.
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October 2024Platforms & infrastructure