Being the Third and Final Day of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., in Which He Visits a Museum, Discovers the Hidden Geometry of Power in the Trick of Perspective, and Reconstructs—in Seven Movements, Delivered to No One, Before a Painting of a City With No
Being the Continuation of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., in Which He Quits the Company of the Possessed for the Company of the Knowing, Overhears Three Professors of Columbia University Lament the Age While Maintaining It, Recalls the Cranks and Forgeries of His Own Century, and
Being a True and Faithful Account of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., Sometime Fellow of Trinity College and Professor at Harvard, Among the Possessed of the City of New York; in Which He Encounters a Financier, a Prophet, and a Company of Coders, and Declines, With
A Treatise on the Comedy of Generational Misrecognition, Composed with All Possible Seriousness The comic is "something mechanical encrusted upon the living." — so Bergson tells us, and we shall take him with absolute literalness, because the spectacle before us is precisely a living thing — a generation, several generations,
Selective Permeability from the Cell to the Civilization, and the Empty Sector Beneath Both A membrane is a verb pretending to be a noun. It looks like a wall — a thing, a boundary, a fact you could photograph. It is actually a labor, a wage paid every second against the
Concerning the Infected Hand — being an autopsy report on what happens when you stitch the entire reactionary canon of the last century onto a single operating table and run a current through it. Before the Curtain — Notes on the Set Picture an empty dissection theater. One table in the center.
Sapere aude. But the dare conceals a prior question: before one knows the other, one must know how the other knows itself, and how the other knows you. The first is information. The last two are conditions of the first. I. The Asymmetry Sun Tzu Did Not Say Aloud The
There is a "bad sector" in language and philosophy—an undefinable, ever-collapsing, yet ever-erecting realm—and that is "nothing" and "everything." Before proceeding, it is necessary to clarify that "nothing" and "everything" are not normative or value-judgmental
The methodological preface of Cosmos Clausus stands. The vocabulary of commerce — trade secret, brochure, retail — is technical, not normative. To describe a metaphysics as a business model is to describe a function it can perform, not to deny the philosophical depth it also possesses. Advaita Vedānta is among the most
A methodological preface. Throughout what follows, the vocabulary of pathology — narcotic, parasite, foreclosure — is used technically and not normatively. To call a structure a narcotic is to describe a function (the metabolisation of pain into bearable sensation), not to pass a verdict on it. The normative question is here suspended,
On the Manufacture of Light: How Authority Persists by Concealing The Sentence Beneath the Sentences There is one sentence under everything written in these two series, and it is time to say it plainly, because a reader who has followed the separate essays — the engine described in Fabricata, the erasures
On the Composite Origins of a Revealed Religion, the Demotion of Defeated Gods, and the Forged Deed by Which a Church Acquired an Empire Prefatory Note on Method A revelation, by definition, descends. It arrives from outside and above, entire and unauthored by human hands, owing nothing to what came