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
How the Renaissance Erased the Two Hands That Fed It, and Other Hinges History Forgot to Mark Prefatory Note on Method There is a particular vanity that afflicts heirs, and it is the vanity of imagining oneself a founder. The heir who has forgotten the estate was built by others
On the Smallness of Man and the Improbable Mercy of a Quiet Sky "Such abrupt changes have been absent during the few key millennia when agriculture and industry have arisen." — Richard B. Alley, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2000) "…the permanent forces that operate upon
A Genealogy of Three Erasures in Enlightenment–Colonial Historiography. De-naming · De-timing · De-causing. "This unworthy collection contains only declamations and miracles: it is the disgrace of the human mind, just as the Greek empire was the reproach of the earth." — Voltaire, Le Pyrrhonisme de l'
Pretium Domesticationis — The Neoliberal Revision of the Economic Axioms and Its Empirical Account, in the Discipline's Own Figures Abstract A prior monograph argued that economics conceals a theology at its axiom-layer while remaining empirical at its operating-layer, so that where the axioms issue testable predictions the
Sub Specie Numeri — Scarcity, the Manufacture of the Market, and the Theological Quarrel Concealed Beneath the Mathematics of the Economic Schools Abstract A prior monograph in this series argued that the major national economic schools diverge along the lines of their territories' confessional firmware, and that the neoclassical homo