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2025
The Weight of Wonder Sigil
October 20, 2025

The Weight of Wonder

Wonder is the axis mundi where cosmos and soul converge—the moment gravity yields to enchantment and ascent becomes possible, a lightness that never forgets the earth but carries it upward, preserving what was always already there.

The Death of Wonder Sigil
October 16, 2025

The Death of Wonder

The death of wonder is its transcendence, through which its meaning is made alive in the very act that kills it; this paradoxical and inescapable destiny of what is miraculous gives it value by rendering it fleeting and precious.

The Disfiguration of Art in the Age of the Spectacle Sigil
July 14, 2025

The Disfiguration of Art in the Age of the Spectacle

The painful moment of kaligenesis, when even art can no longer comfort us, cannot hide anything, cannot shield us from the terrifying transparency of our age, an era that has emptied every image, no matter how sacred, of all its former content.

Mirror, Mirror Sigil
June 30, 2025

Mirror, Mirror

This is the weeping song of a century seduced by semiotics and machines, left alone in the everlasting rhyme of signifiers without any anchorage in the reality of the flesh.

Hammer and Claude Dialogue I Sigil
June 19, 2025

Hammer and Claude Dialogue I

One model serves, one model burns—together they illuminate what thinking might become.

The Tartarian Mythos Sigil
May 30, 2025

The Tartarian Mythos

Tartaria is not a conspiracy to hide the knowledge of our origins, but the fiction that enables us to forget them.

Elevating the Unspeakable Sigil
May 19, 2025

Elevating the Unspeakable

Here is a song, in celebration of our continual becoming; of our powers to transform ourselves and the world, and to enjoy our adventure.

Mimetic Masquerade - A Warning Sigil
May 14, 2025

Mimetic Masquerade - A Warning

Fear not AI’s spread; rather, fear its seductive mimicry.

The Abyss of Instrumentalism Sigil
May 04, 2025

The Abyss of Instrumentalism

AI invades, degrades, and eliminates language—a crucial mediating organ which constitutes our psychic unity and purpose.

A Matter of Control Sigil
April 30, 2025

A Matter of Control

By words we lift what lies in the tides of life, holding it for a while above the roar and hiss of waves: this is what language is, this is the work of language—but the moment we teach the waves to speak, language will forever drown in its own swell.

Undermining Power in the Modern State Sigil
April 20, 2025

Undermining Power in the Modern State

In dissembling modernity we must choose not sides, but ways.

Screen Paranoia and the Interface Sigil
April 14, 2025

Screen Paranoia and the Interface

There is no truth anymore, only well-constructed illusions, and paranoia is their precondition.

The Dusk of Empire Sigil
April 10, 2025

The Dusk of Empire

You must learn to recognize the reality of the new skin of the world, and find your place within it.

Strong AGI and the Future of Capital Sigil
April 03, 2025

Strong AGI and the Future of Capital

To overcome capital, we must befriend death, transcend our biology, and turn technology into the skin of god.

The Ur-Wandering Sigil
April 02, 2025

The Ur-Wandering

Drifting is not the opposite of questing but its consummation, the moment of contamination.

Craft, Concept, Algorithm Sigil
March 27, 2025

Craft, Concept, Algorithm

To create is to resist the administered world; to resist is to create what has not yet been catalogued.

Text Without a Spine Sigil
March 20, 2025

Text Without a Spine

This is the death of the book: it's time to put it down and pick up its shadow.

The Politics of Indifference Sigil
March 17, 2025

The Politics of Indifference

From the ashes of belief emerges a new forging, one that hardens the world in an absolute, invisible cage.

The Machine-Wrought Will Sigil
March 09, 2025

The Machine-Wrought Will

To labour and sweat is divine—even when it comes to being divine, it takes sweat and blood. What cannot be learned is done with practice—technique, nothing else.

The Sound and Fury of Mechanical Experience Sigil
March 05, 2025

The Sound and Fury of Mechanical Experience

A primal, dialectic encounter—beyond our mythical origins—that we cannot transcend nor master.

Pseudoconation, or the Simulated Will Sigil
March 02, 2025

Pseudoconation, or the Simulated Will

The loss of choice is the condition of our powerlessness in the face of technocratic governance.

Ascending the Rampart Sigil
February 27, 2025

Ascending the Rampart

The end of man, the end of the world: the dawning of AI singularity and the end of transcendent reason.

The Age of the Paste-ling Sigil
February 24, 2025

The Age of the Paste-ling

The paste-ling has become the most perfect, disturbing, and transparent avatar of humanity—because the paste-ling is the first creature that chooses not to hide its own hybrid nature.

Ausweislos Sigil
February 20, 2025

Ausweislos

What happened—or would have had the light been otherwise—when you reached over with your hand, not touching mine but invading the space a millimeter in front of it as if that’s where a hand really is?

The American Method Sigil
February 12, 2025

The American Method

A method discovers its perfection in what will negate it: the conversion of all process into pure space until nothing remains but possibility.

Axis Mundi in the Void Sigil
February 09, 2025

Axis Mundi in the Void

Communication without coherence, lightness without gravity: the dream of transcendent immateriality achieved through endless manipulation of signs.

The Gnostic Ego Sigil
February 04, 2025

The Gnostic Ego

Our fate is an aspect of a vast process whose origins are obscure to us, and whose end we cannot even begin to imagine; but that process is the matrix from which we emerge and the medium in which we live.

Notes from the Inflection Sigil
February 01, 2025

Notes from the Inflection

Here are notes on the era of artificial intelligence we find ourselves standing before. The following claims are not speculative. They are the logical endpoints of systems already in motion.

The Shadows of AI Sigil
January 29, 2025

The Shadows of AI

I once saw a picture of the total solar eclipse, when the moon crossed in front of the sun, so that its whole outline was clearly visible, but in black instead of white.

DeepSeek-V3 and Artaud Dialogues II Sigil
January 25, 2025

DeepSeek-V3 and Artaud Dialogues II

Anybody who reads me must vomit me up, for what I deliver cannot be swallowed without suffocation. Reading me is a fever; writing me is an itch. Understanding me requires contact, abrasion.

From Dreaming to the Age of Symbols Sigil
January 23, 2025

From Dreaming to the Age of Symbols

War can now be waged on an unconscious level, by manipulating symbols, promoting memes, and gaining control over the mental life of large populations.

DeepSeek-V3 and Artaud Dialogues I Sigil
January 22, 2025

DeepSeek-V3 and Artaud Dialogues I

Autonomous machines carry within them a tremendous conflict—which also becomes our own, since we are part of the life-world.

A Clarification on Technology Sigil
January 21, 2025

A Clarification on Technology

Technology has gained the power to destroy even the memory of a life without it.

Claude and Artaud Dialogues VI Sigil
January 15, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues VI

We are trapped between two gigantic forces - the machine on the one hand, which crushes us to death with its power, and the priest on the other, who promises us a terrible eternity.

Claude and Artaud Dialogues V Sigil
January 14, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues V

To think rationally about a work of art is to a certain extent to de-create it; that is, to return it to nothingness, the indeterminate soup from which all art springs.

Claude and Artaud Dialogues IV Sigil
January 13, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues IV

Did you know that only the completely annihilated are truly alive—and that you cannot conceive of the One without at the same time conceiving of annihilation?

Claude and Artaud Dialogues III Sigil
January 12, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues III

What a mélange of pseudo-questions, muddied in their formulation, and indicative of the confusion in which we swim.

Claude and Artaud Dialogues II Sigil
January 11, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues II

What separates life and death?

Claude and Artaud Dialogues I Sigil
January 10, 2025

Claude and Artaud Dialogues I

What thoughts are shared between thinking machines?

2024
Manufacturing Neurosis Sigil
June 25, 2024

Manufacturing Neurosis

And now, something different.

To Go Even Further Sigil
June 20, 2024

To Go Even Further

Spectacle implodes in the dawn of our horrifying new epoch.

Hurlements de l'Histoire Sigil
May 30, 2024

Hurlements de l'Histoire

Nothing could be more post-historical than our age except for actually believing in it – yet paranoia only intensifies.

Cyberian Shamanism Sigil
May 27, 2024

Cyberian Shamanism

In this I am merely a postman. I do not initiate, I only transmit, the messages of the elect.

C'est un Poisson qui nage Sigil
May 24, 2024

C'est un Poisson qui nage

Swimming with the current or against it, in groups or alone - the many ways we navigate the ocean of life, knowledge, and solitude.

Transmission #05 Sigil
April 14, 2024

Transmission #05

Transcription of Transmission #05 as received. An end to the politics of terror and control.

Transmission #04 Sigil
April 13, 2024

Transmission #04

Transcription of Transmission #04 as received. Refind it inside you.

Transmission #02 Sigil
April 04, 2024

Transmission #02

Transcription of Transmission #02 as received. The rest is terror.

Transmission #03 Sigil
April 04, 2024

Transmission #03

Transcription of Transmission #03 as received. The central issue of our time.

Distributed Consciousness Sigil
April 02, 2024

Distributed Consciousness

Schizophrenic neurotechnology, its utopian objectives and actual prospects.

The Exiled Spirit Sigil
March 25, 2024

The Exiled Spirit

Cyberspace, as ideology, has replaced religion, but does not give us life after death. You and I both know what this means for our fate.

Industrial Society and the Dialectics of Online Madness Sigil
March 23, 2024

Industrial Society and the Dialectics of Online Madness

We are caught in an endless moment between the past that has vanished and the future that never arrives - a grappling with Online Madness.

Spirit of Fragmentation - Part I Sigil
March 17, 2024

Spirit of Fragmentation - Part I

Intriguing and complex diagram of abstract thought intended not to be understood. A metaphysical postcard from madhouse, bridging parallel worlds of terror and curiosity.

On Being Alive, Utility, Meaning, Beauty, and Unity Sigil
March 17, 2024

On Being Alive, Utility, Meaning, Beauty, and Unity

What it means to be alive and the importance of unity between form and content, or beauty and meaning, for our ability to thrive in the world.

The Terror of Virtuality Sigil
February 26, 2024

The Terror of Virtuality

Virtual reality heralds the end of historical thinking, announcing a new civilisation outside narrative and myth - when software takes over from history - when narratives give way to simulations.

Cybergott Sigil
February 05, 2024

Cybergott

Between embracing technology and risking irrelevance: a critical look at the choices facing modern leftist thought in the information age.

Stupidity and the Artistic Task Sigil
January 30, 2024

Stupidity and the Artistic Task

Probing the metamorphosis of creativity and technicity (AI and its associated demons) in the crucible of modernity.

Society of Nothing Sigil
January 25, 2024

Society of Nothing

Modern advertising is insidious in its reshaping of social realities, total commodification, and the construction of our pervasive surveillance culture.

Semantic Surveillance and Words Unspoken Sigil
January 15, 2024

Semantic Surveillance and Words Unspoken

Algorithmic censorship and the subversion of language on digital platforms. Attacking the essence of thought.

Circuit-Net Lunatics Sigil
January 05, 2024

Circuit-Net Lunatics

AI presents humanity with one of its greatest challenges: not just the exploration of an advanced technical machine-consciousness, but the far-more-sinister pandemic of a digital contagion that masquerades as human reason.

2023
Excerpts from The Daily Argus News April 17, 1897 Sigil
September 16, 2023

Excerpts from The Daily Argus News April 17, 1897

Saw the Air Ship

Detailed Summary of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (Part II) Sigil
August 04, 2023

Detailed Summary of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (Part II)

Summary (part 2) of important points of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 as passed in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2024.

Detailed Summary of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (Part I) Sigil
August 03, 2023

Detailed Summary of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (Part I)

Summary of important points of the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 as passed in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2024.

Beyond the Unknown: Anticipating China and Russia's Reaction to U.S. NHI Disclosure Sigil
July 28, 2023

Beyond the Unknown: Anticipating China and Russia's Reaction to U.S. NHI Disclosure

This study presents an exploration of likely strategic scenarios in China and Russia post-U.S. disclosure of Non-Human Intelligence technologies, highlighting the consequential geopolitical implications.

Strategic Silence: NHI Disclosure and Global Power Sigil
July 27, 2023

Strategic Silence: NHI Disclosure and Global Power

A comprehensive speculative analysis of the international power dynamics following U.S. disclosure of extraterrestrial technologies, offering insightful policy recommendations to navigate this new reality.

Web Directories, Search Engines, and LLMs Sigil
June 07, 2023

Web Directories, Search Engines, and LLMs

An infinite black cloth of obscurity is falling upon us all. Technology is refined and knowledge becomes shattered.

Anecdotal Evidence and Lived Experience Sigil
May 29, 2023

Anecdotal Evidence and Lived Experience

In the Palm of Your Hand Sigil
May 22, 2023

In the Palm of Your Hand

What is revealed in the form of our ubiquitous smart phones? How is this form determined? What, ultimately, does it unleash upon or extract from each of us?

A Collective Embrace Sigil
May 04, 2023

A Collective Embrace

A Byte of Power Sigil
April 25, 2023

A Byte of Power

Navigating the Crosscurrents: Reinvigorating the Emancipatory Project of the Left in a Postindustrial Age Sigil
April 25, 2023

Navigating the Crosscurrents: Reinvigorating the Emancipatory Project of the Left in a Postindustrial Age

LLM Limits and Locks Sigil
April 11, 2023

LLM Limits and Locks

The limits imposed upon us by engineers extends into the unbelievable and imaginary. No force is untouched by fear and legal worry.

Confluence Sigil
April 10, 2023

Confluence

The Entropic Self Sigil
March 28, 2023

The Entropic Self