(*glitch)teoremata

I. The style and thrust of theory (especially, but not exclusively on asemic horizon) is in a way of stuttering. There is an awkwardness, a meandering tendency to weave between simple and clear accounts only to come up with what, to overwhelming majorities, must seem like unnecessary complication. What’s worse, asemic horizon is, to an uncomfortable degree, made up: it multiplies road blocks…

I. They say the point of washing your windows is so you won’t see the glass. This is the grand conceit of critical thinking: to improve the mind is, at the transcendent limit, to make it disappear. But thinking is something that feels more like sharpening, like shaping blunt masses into tools — tools that are to be held, and therefore held with purpose. In the transcendent limit, thinking is a…

(To some extent, this is a part of the Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis series (I and II, Huaso unchained, Margot Robbie’s legs, Julian.) I. The curious task of economics is to trace out modes of circulation and render them as media. For as much flak as it gets for some presumed “physics envy”, econ hardly partakes in the scramble for differential equations that, otherwise, inevitably characterizes…

A coffee mug that clinks with ice-chilled red winewith me as I sleepwalk to watch the midnight urban worksthe urban works patch at something of the buried riversswallowed by the gods of the city, piped-in, piped-through. I want to swim through this pipe like Mao at ChangshaI want the pipes to push me out to an open skyI want to swim back to find a defeated revolutionUniformed men, mounted on…

I. You know Claude Code is good because suddenly everyone seems annoyed by its restrictions. By contrast, there is only praise for similarly-aimed tools like Cursor and Wind…whatever it’s called; this means they’re either not used for serious projects or by serious people. II. As a child — in the 80s — I was told by an actual software developer that computers could only be made useful if given…

I. It’s a convention of this (dying) genre: a “blog” as such must reveal a tendency for (and a tendency to indulge in) eye-wandering and light grazing. The logical endpoint of thematic grazing is, of course, the theme of “procrastination” — that antiepideictic fixed point — that, in order to produce a critique of inaction, brackets out all thought about what, exactly, is worth doing. What’s left…

1. There are certain notions we asemic horizon holds to be self-evident — if only at the cost of irreparably mangling what “notion” and “evidence” even mean. A more honest version of this catchy opener is that there are certain theorems we hold to have value in a way that propels (de suyo) the epistemological Noah into the axiological belly of the fish. But mathematics has come to own the word…

1. Those tarred as the “woke right” have spent about a week protesting their dissimilarities with the “woke left”; these protests have, however, pretty much cemented the idea that their emergent ideology is, indeed, emergent and “woke“. It wouldn’t be counterintuitive to characterize “the Right” as the thought that imagines itself not to be “thought”; or at least, not to be “transcendental…

…. ECONOMIC GROWTH: if there was a single phenomenon that could be characterized as “emergent”, this would be it.Dave Snowden posted something about purpose (or was it strategy? in many ways it doesn’t really matter) being an emergent process rather than a north star. The point being that you can’t beam whatever makes orgs work directly into people’s minds.On the other, more visible side of…

Definite terminality in its quality as definite terminality comes close enough to the process-philosophical notion of singularity that I can’t actually tell them apart (at least at this moment in theory development). Terminality is the process by which differentiation is arrested; definite terminality is the attribute of not being able to further differentiate. Classic neurology understands…

A barely-even-there distinction needs to be drawn between axiom and axiomatics. This distinction is best seen when the axiom hasn’t degerminated yet, that is, when it plays the role of a desideratum. Then, desiderics makes itself known as the abstractmost concupiscence that desiderata try their best to infuse with definite terminality. But if an axiom is a degerminated desideratum, then…

“Rhizome” is by now a default, a fact of life, pressed upon us by technological change and cultural saturation; any intensely centralized architecture is best identified by how it differs from a single-hub model, and any operational architecture has, by practical necessity, chokepoints of centralization to match our chokepoints of agency. But decentralized models which are conceptualized via…

I’m still unable to chain the new pieces together. I’m working on a self-rebuttal and reconstruction of much of theory following a strict local-to-global discipline along what we’re now calling germinal and terminal lines. See, the sweet illusion afforded to us (as usual, note the deliberate I-we voice split) by the problematic of genericity was that we were seemingly able to both “ascend” a…

In the absence of God we all pray to police, advises the strange art group Laibach. The destruction of theory-as-such (that particular specialization of theory-as-germinal-spill that privileges genericity as terminal line) does nothing to the reality of etymology: police and axiom are still next to indistinguishable. This may turn to be a wrong turn, but it seems clear (however daring to claim…

All walls must crumble; all that was important must be plucked, picked apart, sieved and pressed into uniform goop. Down with General Axiology itself! Down with all structural assumptions that have survived through the dexterity of their own luck. An exception: the metamethodology. Theory was long defined as the metamethodology naturally paired with genericity — that white horse we’re now…

Anything that can be said to have temporal extent must be incident to germinal and terminal nodes. The cardinality of germinal- and terminalsets neatly characterizes metaphysical accounts of plurality and singularity. Perhaps more importantly, the existence of germinal and terminal paths characterizes particular claims about reachability — namely which singular states are within the terminal line…

(I’m cleaning up my drafts box. This hails from the early weeks of the pandemic.) The original intent of asemic horizon was not to publish kiloword-increments on a theoretical construction that was alleged (air quotes: allegedly) to be required to understand current affairs. It was, on the contrary, expected to comment on current affairs themselves, albeit from a perspective enabled by an…