2005–2026
122 entries· 61 essays· the site as data →

AI

32 entries
2026 2 entries
  • Mar 27
    EssayWorld Machines The Octotypic Mind

    Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI

    11 min
  • Jan 11
    EssayWorld Machines The Kernel and the Ark

    I. The Wall and the Infinite # It is possible that the history of the modern West hinges on a single, melancholic misreading of Voltaire. When Candide, exhausted by the Lisbon earthquake and the …

    12 min
2025 3 entries
  • Dec 26
    Essay The Deep Dark Terroir of the Soul

    This is the third and final part of the Thicket Series: Part 1: Logic of the Thicket and the Unsearchable Web Part 2: The Architecture of Resistance The history of the working subject might be best …

    14 min
  • Dec 23
    EssayWorld Machines The Architecture of Resistance

    The seventeenth-century Hague, the mid-twentieth-century Levant, and the digital terraforming of 2025 have a shared preoccupation with the “Average.” Whether it is the theologian’s way or predictive …

    4 min
  • Dec 17
    EssayWorld Machines The Shelter as Epistemic Engine

    This is a continuation of my ongoing exploration of places and spaces. Previously: We need homes in the delta quadrant, Thinking with places, Problems are places questions are spaces. Introduction: …

    6 min