Any system, when considered in its entirety, has no external reference point. If it is an abstraction, then it is wholly self-contained, looping back into itself without remainder. But if that abstraction maps onto reality, then the implication is staggering—there must be a fundamental discontinuity woven into the structure of existence itself.°° Absence is not […]
A theory describes itself and its own history as much as it ever comprehensively communicates or unproblematically renders its object, it sets out to prove that an absence of its opposite is the presence (and truth) of itself. A cunning gambit as the basis for confirmatory self-validation but grounded in this way in an abject […]
…some days, I’d like to just gather up all the tyrants, the warlords and the dictators and seal them in a glass sphere before launching it across the event horizon of a black hole. Beyond the staggering complexity and as yet non-existent infrastructure for such an arguably defensible act, it remains as a conceptually simple […]
Daedelus Kite 