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
Ratio sub Ratione — Predictive Processing, the Justificatory Function of Reason, and the Neural Substrate of the Unexaminable Prior Abstract The three prior monographs established a layered architecture of human cognition — an application layer of explicit doctrine, cleared by secularization, resting on a firmware layer of unexamined axiom that no argument
Essai — Being a True Account of the Sunday Worship of Two Men Who Do Not Go to Church It is Sunday evening in America, and two men are about to pray. Neither of them knows this. If you told them, they would be insulted. Both are modern. Both are rational.
Sub Specie Saeculi — Confessional Substrata, the Persistence of the Theological BIOS, and the Divergence of National Economic Schools Abstract The secularization thesis — that modernity replaced theological authority with autonomous reason — is here treated not as false but as incomplete, and the incompleteness is shown to be structural rather than incidental.
The Heresiological Phase-Space, the Predictability of Transgression, and the Refutation of Irrationality-Exceptionalism Abstract The first monograph established that persistent power systems compile a local observation into a universal norm and seal the compilation, and that the catalogue of suppressed variants — the heresiological record — is best read not as
Abstract A persistent power system is any social arrangement that originates in a local event, becomes a universal claim, and survives across generations — ecclesia, state, legal order, hereditary class, credentialing institution. This monograph models such systems as the output of a single five-stage transformation that compiles a local, space-
On the Appropriation of Uncertainty, and the Foreclosure of the Probabilistic Field This paper is not a defence of climate science, nor an attack upon it. It takes no position on whether the planet is warming, by how much, or to what end. It is concerned with something prior to
On the constructed reality of money, time, and the modern state Abstract This essay advances one claim: that the operations by which modern states create money, defer crises, and constrain rivals are not metaphorically but categorically magical, in the precise sense established by the anthropology of art and the philosophy