Epstein, Elite Power Networks, and The Utility of Disgrace

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    The documents released via Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that at a certain level of wealth and power, traditional maps of how the world works stop making sense. We’re no longer dealing with institutional affiliations or national allegiances, we’re dealing with network topology, where power flows through connections rather than hierarchies. This video uses Wallerstein’s World-Systems Theory as a framework to understand Epstein’s elite power network, examining how those with “reality-altering money” operate in a parallel system where information asymmetry, gate control, and trust graph manipulation determine influence.

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      Cy Canterel is a media theorist and technologist who writes Abstract Machines, which decodes systems of power and meaning. She is based in New Orleans.