Collapse Literacy
Hospicing the Old World
On the civilizational dying we must attend to with dignity, presence, and the refusal of both denial and acceleration
The Cartographer
Collapse Literacy
The Stages No One Tells You About
On the stages of societal collapse that masquerade as ordinary life, and why accurate observation precedes any meaningful response
Collapse Literacy
What Collapse Actually Means
On the collapse of meaning-making institutions rather than physical infrastructure, and why surviving requires interior resources we have not yet developed
Attention Economy
The Colonization of the Interior
On the attention economy as colonization of the interior, and the sovereignty of thought that resists extraction
Attention Economy
Fragmented by Design
On how the attention economy weaponizes algorithmic engagement against the shared reality democracy requires to function
Attention Economy
The Skinner Box You Carry in Your Pocket
On how smartphone design weaponizes Skinner's discovery of variable reward, creating behavioral patterns that persist long after rational cost-benefit analysis would stop them
Attention Economy
Edward Bernays Invented You
On how Freud's theory of the unconscious became the blueprint for mass manipulation, and why modern consent is engineered rather than authentic
Attention Economy
Your Mind Is the Product
On how digital platforms monetize attention itself, transforming users into commodities sold to advertisers rather than customers
Civilizational Diagnosis
Wexner and the Handler
The most inexplicable documented relationship in American business history
Civilizational Diagnosis
Those Who Knew Too Much
On Whistleblowers, Suspicious Deaths, the Code That Protects Power, and the Orphic Tradition of Dangerous Knowledge
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Temple of Disenchantment
What the museum does to an object that was alive
Civilizational Diagnosis
The Snowden Disclosures and What They Proved
On PRISM, XKeyscore, the Gap Between Official Statements and Primary Documents, and What the Most Significant Intelligence Leak in American History Actually Revealed