Kasurian is a general-interest magazine for the 21st century. Its name is a stylised Latinisation of the Arabic word for fractal, chosen to represent patterns that repeat across scales, spring from a single source, and reveal an order beneath civilisation's myriad phenomena.
It began as a COVID-era reading group, a handful of people spread across continents, ages and professions, coming together to explore ideas, both novel and recovered, that might seed a culture of curiosity, rigour, ambition and truth-seeking, even at the expense of intellectual comfort.
Kasurian’s worldview is curiosity and conviction: the conviction that, in an uncertain age, certain truths remain unchanged; the curiosity to ask how they carry into our present and future.
Our deeper preoccupation is practical. Flourishing civilisations are information-processing enterprises: ecosystems of institutions, each playing a distinct role, that together create the conditions under which excellence compounds across generations.
We’re interested in the process knowledge of how such institutions are actually built. We can study, reverse-engineer, and rebuild process knowledge—but only once we understand it.
Kasurian is where we assemble that understanding piece by piece, drawing on a wide range of disciplines—deep history and intellectual history, political economy and philosophy, science and technology, sociology and culture—and pursuing each question through case studies, heuristics, and first-principles inquiry.
Each season, Kasurian publishes an issue composed of six essays. Footnotes carries shorter pieces in between seasons: notes, articles, op-eds and letters.
Managing editor — Mariam Mahmoud
Contributing editor — Burak Ömer
Artist — Ahmet Faruk Yılmaz
Designer — Yana Zuray