Contraption Mansion

An old bit becomes a new it

Mar 16 • Venkatesh Rao

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6

February 2026

Archival Selves

What happens when you pay off all your intention debts?

Feb 28 • Venkatesh Rao

63

5

9

The Divergence Machine II

Progress as a non-stationary argument

Feb 22 • Venkatesh Rao

32

1

7

Protocolized Writing Workshop

Your chance to race to the frontier of modern AI-forward writing and publishing

Feb 17 • Venkatesh Rao

27

5

7

vgr: The Twitter Years (2007-22)

I made my twitter into a very nice online book

Feb 15 • Venkatesh Rao

30

5

5

New Ferality

Seeking new ways of being wild in new nature

Feb 10 • Venkatesh Rao

116

3

14

Engineering Liveness

New Nature in the Gramsci Gap

Feb 1 • Venkatesh Rao

29

1

6

January 2026

Robot Auras

Robotics-native affect beyond googly eyes and human emotions

Jan 25 • Venkatesh Rao

24

2

2

New Nature

Contours of can’t-be-evil futures

Jan 16 • Venkatesh Rao

61

3

8

Lost in Bugspace

The temporality of implementation uncertainty in software

Jan 10 • Venkatesh Rao

16

2

1

The Divergence Machine

Introducing the 2026 Book Club theme

Jan 5 • Venkatesh Rao

60

2

13

December 2025

The Modernity Machine III

Completion, Saturation, and Phase Transition

Dec 24, 2025 • Venkatesh Rao

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5

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