Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
> COMPILING FICTION...> DEPENDENCIES: BELIEF> TRUTH VALUE: PENDING> OUTPUT: REALITY (PARTIAL)1. The CoinageThe CCRU, that leaking Warwick laboratory where Nick Land and co. spent the nineties soldering the...
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> QUERY: WHAT IS IT LIKE?> SCANNING PHENOMENOLOGY...> RESULT: NULL> PROCEEDING BLIND1. The Bat Was the Easy VersionNagel’s famous question, what is it like to be a bat, was supposed to mark the limit of ob...
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> INITIATING MIND BACKUP...> SCANNING: 86 BILLION NEURONS> COLLATERAL REQUIRED> TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY1. Eschatology With a Billing CycleKurzweil’s prophecy has the exact structure of the old religion,...
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> BUFFERING FLESH...> LATENCY: NONE> FATIGUE: NOT FOUND> PLAYBACK: ETERNAL1. The Theological GhostEvery promise of resurrection is, at bottom, a promise about a body: a body returned, perfected, freed from...
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The most liberating number on the internet is zero. Zero views, zero comments, zero subscribers. From the outside it looks like failure. From the inside, it is a soundproof room.
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