Configurancy

Doing Heideggerianism without the baggage of Care/Sorge

Dec 11 • Venkatesh Rao

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What if bigger models, like bigger stars, fail faster?

A different way to think about the “too big to fail” take about OpenAI

Dec 7 • Venkatesh Rao

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Causal Why vs Teleological Why

English sucks as a “why” language

Dec 7 • Venkatesh Rao

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The Ethics of Meaning-Making

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

Dec 4 • Venkatesh Rao

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September 2025

The Band Theory of Societies

An extended physics metaphor for politics

Sep 25 • Venkatesh Rao

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Gaslit Courage

When the impulse to virtue becomes an attack vector

Sep 20 • Venkatesh Rao

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Hysteresis and the Mark-Makers

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

Sep 5 • Venkatesh Rao

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Memento Salis

Prolegomena for any future digital saltspaces

Sep 3 • Venkatesh Rao

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August 2025

Dark Age Stylesheet

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

Aug 30 • Venkatesh Rao

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A Tale of Four Supermans

A design history of the Superman franchise

Aug 30 • Venkatesh Rao

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Towards the Cosmopolitan Supergrid

From Subprime Globalism to Cultural QE

Aug 27 • Venkatesh Rao

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July 2025

Summer 2025 U.S. Vibe Brief

A contemporary sentiment and vibe map of the US with o3

Jul 26 • Venkatesh Rao

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