In Domestic War, Beware the Rabble

Notes on an "unfortunate season" of civil conflict

Plato: The First Indie Scholar (Plus a NorCal Meetup in 3 Weeks)

A preview from my forthcoming book and an upcoming weekend in the woods.

Ecstatic Swoons

Stendhal, Lacan, Gutenberg, Nick Land and more

A Blow to the Head

On Alex Karp, Hélène Cixous, Gorgias, Sarah McNally, and More

The Bari Weiss Strategy

Notes on a $150M playbook that's never been written down

The Violent Focus of Francis Bacon

St. Francis and the Obscure Logic of Cultural Influence

Do you have what it takes to leave behind a long-lasting institution?

The Delirium of Reason: On William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)

"Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names."

Signaling Through the Flames: Artaud's Inquisition

“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.”

Database Animals, Financialized