Myth’d is a short-form essay publication by Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi examining how systems of power sustain themselves through narratives that make authority appear natural, inevitable, or legitimate.

Modern institutions rarely present themselves as instruments of power. They appear instead as neutral systems: efficient technologies, necessary bureaucracies, objective policies, or inevitable developments. Yet beneath these surfaces lie infrastructures that distribute authority, extract value, and stabilise particular political and economic arrangements.

Myth’d investigates these systems.

Each essay begins with a contemporary development in technology, governance, culture, or international policy and examines the deeper architecture behind it. The analysis focuses on four recurring questions:

What system is operating here? Why?
Who controls it?
What is being extracted?
What narrative makes the system appear legitimate?

In this sense Myth’d is not a news commentary platform. It is a diagnostic publication concerned with the structures that shape modern authority.

The Themes

The essays published here typically examine developments across several domains:

Artificial intelligence and governance infrastructure
Surveillance and data systems
Institutional design and bureaucratic power
Cultural authority and restitution
Civilisational infrastructures of power

These domains may appear separate, but they often share the same underlying dynamics.

The Myth Layer

Systems of power endure not only through law, capital, or technology but through stories that make them appear reasonable.

Recurring narratives examined in Myth’d include:

the myth of efficiency
the myth of neutrality
the myth of inevitability
the myth of security
the myth of sovereignty

These myths shape how societies understand institutions and determine which systems are accepted, resisted, or ignored.

The Publication

Myth’d publishes short essays responding to contemporary developments while building a growing archive of ideas about infrastructure, power, and legitimacy.

Over time this archive forms a body of work examining how modern authority is constructed and maintained.

The Author

Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi is a writer examining the architecture of power across technology, governance, and culture.

Her work explores the narratives through which institutions stabilise authority and the infrastructures that shape modern systems of control.

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