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From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories
A Transmission Hypothesis for the French Precision Revolution and Its American Transformation
May 30
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Time, Enlightenment and Romanticism Between Modernity and Divergence
World Machines learnings from recent book club readings
May 30
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AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
Apr 25
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The World Machines Project
Yes, we're doing this nonfiction extended universe dammit
Mar 28
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The Divergence Machine II
Progress as a non-stationary argument
Feb 22
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Engineering Liveness
New Nature in the Gramsci Gap
Feb 1
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New Nature
Contours of can’t-be-evil futures
Jan 16
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The Divergence Machine
Introducing the 2026 Book Club theme
Jan 5
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The Modernity Machine III
Completion, Saturation, and Phase Transition
Dec 24, 2025
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Be History or Do History?
The be somebody/do something fork in relating to history
Jul 5, 2025
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The Modernity Machine II
A book club update.
Jun 28, 2025
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In Search of Liveness
The common denominator of all our concerns
May 17, 2025
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