Philosophy

24 entries

2026 5 entries

Aug 2
EssayWorld Machinesnewest Nakatomi Drift
How to Get Properly Lost
15 min
Jul 21
EssayWorld Machines On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Back to Liveness
8 min
Jul 19
EssayWorld Machines The Birth of Thickets
An Interregnum in Space
11 min
Mar 8
EssayWorld Machines The End of Identity: AI, Plasticity, and the Divergence Machine
Over the past year, the Contraptions club has been reading through history—from Giordano Bruno and Montaigne to Spinoza, Adam Smith, and Hume. We are now using using Venkatesh Rao’s Divergence Machine …
4 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