Programmatic Sovereignty: Towers, Tours, and the State as a Stage
Power is often imagined as something fixed: a capital city, a palace, a throne, a building that can be pointed to on a map. Yet historically, sovereignty has been far more mobile, procedural, and temporal than spatial. What looks like architecture is frequently jurisdiction; what looks like ceremony is often mechanism. The tower, the tour, the parade, and the broadcast are not decorations of power … Continue reading Programmatic Sovereignty: Towers, Tours, and the State as a Stage
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Frankenstein’s Workshop: Time, Custody, and the Birth of Clockwork
The enduring significance of Frankenstein does not lie in its depiction of life assembled from death, but in the institutional relocation of that act. Shelley situates creation not within a sanctuary but within a workshop—a space governed by instruments, procedures, calibration, and repeatability rather than sacrament or revelation. What is radical is not animation itself but jurisdiction: the claim that life, once the exclusive province of divine mediation, … Continue reading Frankenstein’s Workshop: Time, Custody, and the Birth of Clockwork
The Schacht Blueprint
If you trace the hidden wiring of the modern world — the black budgets, the offshore money channels, the classified aerospace research, the deniable intelligence programs, the quiet financial arteries that move billions without ever appearing in a public ledger — you eventually end up in a place that surprises almost everyone. Not in Langley.Not in Miami.Not in the Caribbean.Not in the Cold War. You … Continue reading The Schacht Blueprint
Neo’s Trinity
Public conversations about artificial intelligence tend to split into two extremes. On one end are the people who are not deeply engaged with digital technology—the workers whose daily routines resemble those of thirty years ago. They are not saturated in online culture, they do not follow debates about alignment or machine consciousness, and they do not think in terms of cognitive augmentation. Their reaction to … Continue reading Neo’s Trinity
History of the Great Enlightened Society of Oculists
Tarot in the Digital Age: From Paper to Protocol, and the Emergence of a New Symbolic Ecology
What the digital age ultimately reveals is not a break with tarot’s past, but the continuity of its underlying function. Across six centuries and multiple cultural transformations, tarot has remained a tool for negotiating uncertainty through images. Whether shuffled at an aristocratic table, studied in an occult lodge, interpreted in a therapist’s office, or tapped on a smartphone screen, the cards help people convert ambiguity … Continue reading Tarot in the Digital Age: From Paper to Protocol, and the Emergence of a New Symbolic Ecology
Tarot in the Modern Imagination: Psychology, Counterculture, and the Making of a Global Symbol System
By the dawn of the twentieth century, tarot had already passed through two major transformations. First, it emerged in Renaissance Italy as an elegant card game reflecting the allegorical imagination of its age. Then, centuries later, it was reinterpreted by Enlightenment amateurs and Victorian occultists who projected ancient lineages onto imagery never meant to bear such weight. But if tarot’s first life was cultural and … Continue reading Tarot in the Modern Imagination: Psychology, Counterculture, and the Making of a Global Symbol System
Unnameable Media 