The Ethics of Meaning-Making

The search for "meaning" is not synonymous with "good"

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November 2025

Be Slightly Monstrous

Learning to feel time again in the Permaweird

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September 2025

Fall Break

Contraptions is going on hiatus

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The Band Theory of Societies

An extended physics metaphor for politics

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Gaslit Courage

When the impulse to virtue becomes an attack vector

Sep 20 • 

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Beyond Szabo Scaling

Miniaturization and orchestration of human capabilities with AI and protocols

Sep 11 • 

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Hysteresis and the Mark-Makers

The American center-left through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s theories

Sep 5 • 

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Memento Salis

Prolegomena for any future digital saltspaces

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

Dark Age Stylesheet

Developing a visual style guide based on James Gunn's Superman

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A Tale of Four Supermans

A design history of the Superman franchise

Aug 30 • 

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Towards the Cosmopolitan Supergrid

From Subprime Globalism to Cultural QE

Aug 27 • 

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Art as Memory

On art forms as memory technologies

Aug 17 • 

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