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Immanence Machines
"Nature loves to encrypt." —Heraclitus
WRITINGS
Thoughts, updates, and deep dives into provable systems
2 min readNockchain Syllabus Vol. 1
We're currently working on a technical statement about our market thesis. In the meantime, we thought we'd publish a list of sources for the 14 essays we've published in the past few months. (We've always taken care to cite our sources, but we've never offered a bibliography). Bataille, Georges. Theory of Religion. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Zone Books, 1989. Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Bur
4 min readSam Houston's Silent Slope to Texas
On silence, record-keeping, and the obscure geographical teleology of American freedom.
4 min readAristocratic Information Markets
On Hernán Cortés and informal capital formation.
3 min readFaith, Exodus, and Decentralization
"May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: 'Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice, and looked on their adversity...'" —William Bradford
3 min readInhibited Synthesis
"The increasingly rigorous differentiation of marriage from trade, or politics from economics, finds its ultimate conceptual definition in the thought of a moral agency which is utterly impervious to learning, communication, or exchange." —Nick Land
3 min readHow to Pass a Torch
"Sovereign is he who commands the compute." —James Poulos
3 min readSacrifice, Festival, and Proof of Work
"The festival... is an aspiration for destruction... but there is a conservative prudence that regulates and limits it." —Georges Bataille
2 min readFreedom and Silence
Everyone talks about "freedom of speech," but we forget the freedom to say nothing.