5 min read
Stephen F. Austin and the Telos of Texas
"We shall go for Independence, and put our trust in our selves, our rifles, and——our god." —Stephen F. Austin
WRITINGS
Thoughts, updates, and deep dives into provable systems
2 min readThe King and the Messenger
On permissionless and scalable kingmaking.
2 min readHuman Rites
When Proof of Work is abolished at the anthropological layer, it reappears at the managerial layer: A theory of Higher Education and signaling games run amok.
3 min readThe Self-Destruction of Nihilism
On technology, the Übermensch, and "the relentless destruction of everything that was degenerating and parasitical... passing into the service of an excess of life." (Deleuze)
2 min readThe Rising Returns to Courage
On power, value, and responsibility futurism.
3 min readThe Hamlet and the Steeple
"Now it is not the devil but DOS that sits on my belly." —Ivan Illich
3 min readThe Light and the City
"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." ——Matthew 7:14
3 min readGeneral Acrobatics
"Man is a rope, stretched between beast and Übermensch—a rope over an abyss..." —Nietzsche
3 min readThe Desert of the Real
"It is up to us to again become the nomads of this desert... a virgin, sacred space without pathways, continuous as Bataille wished it, where only the wind lifts the sand, where only the wind watches over the sand." —Baudrillard