Deep Dives
Philosophy
A Field Guide to Accelerationism & Lemurian Eschatology
From Marx's fragment to e/acc, and the fake religion the same people wrote alongside it. With an interactive numogram, a filterable chronology, and every claim marked as documented, hyperstition, or contested. Passcode required.
Nietzsche: Critique of Christianity
Slave morality, ressentiment, the naturalism thesis, and where the objections land. Notes in progress.
René Girard
Mimetic desire, imitation, conflict, and escaping the trap. Passages and notes.
Progress
A Formal Study of Progress
Working outline for an essay arguing we need an actual science of progress: defining it, telling real from illusory gains, and investing accordingly in the AI era.
Peter Thiel
The End of the Future
Summary of Thiel's 2011 essay on stagnation, definite optimism, and the faith required to build.
The Economics of Attention: Good, Bad, and Ugly
A Field Guide to Spectacle and Memetic Legitimation
Debord to Dogecoin: how memes became the operative layer of political legitimation rather than commentary on it. With a stepper through Baudrillard's four stages of the sign, the van Leeuwen legitimation matrix, the decay of the ironic asterisk, and every claim marked documented, argued, or conceded. Passcode required.
Decentralized Finance
Energy, Climate, and Natural Capital
A Field Guide to the Kardashev Gradient
Accelerationists argue that climbing the Kardashev scale dissolves every climate constraint. The physics says the climate problem is solved at K = 0.77 and the planet is uninhabitable by K = 0.94, which puts the ladder's first named rung well past the ceiling. With an interactive gradient, the overshoot charted, and counterpoints from the climate literature. Passcode required.
Biotechnologies
AI and Humanities
AI and Humanities
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