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Oeuvre

This page is a catalog of my writing and other completed works.

2022

• History of debates over subjectivity - Let's build a timeline
• Types and levels of spectacle
• They're Keeping Down the Gay Hitler Movement: Discursive Observations - Gay(dolf) Hitler Arrives from the Future
• Cryptosocialism: Towards an Open Marxist Eschatology
• Series of overton-window-shifting articles:
  • What are your highest-order observations about world affairs?
  • Proposal for a peer support group to help people
  • Avoiding, ignoring, and suppressing conflict is a privileged position
  • The problem of real solidarity
  • The real America that you secretly know about
  • Building up to a sustained boycott is a process. To make participating in the boycott possible, it's important to find alternatives
  • Cephalism: Nuance beyond "capitalism"
  • A given mass of intelligence must do a commensurate amount of active work to not hegemonically ignore blind spots (a larger mass of intelligence must work harder to not be hegemonic)
  • Crime chic
• Series of articles on plural subjecthood:
  • Multiple different kinds of plural experiences that work differently and cannot be described in equivalent language
  • I am a hyperplural / transplural / post-plural computational system, AMA / Grand Unified Theory of Hyperplurality
  • Story: You are at an "Executive Transplural Virtual Weekend Retreat" and the shaman is telling this story

2021

• Ultramemes: Storytelling and the Secret Language, online presentation at INTERSECT at CCC
• Series of anti-fascist articles:
  • The Orwell Scale: Towards a scale for measuring the level of fascism/totalitarianism/authoritarianism of a society, as experienced by its residents (meme)
  • The Orwell Scale 2: Personal Edition
  • Dark value: Value that cannot be measured (addendum)
  • Elements of Fascism
  • Are you pro-nexus or anti-nexus?
• “The Voyage of the USS Confluence”, a short story published in Plutonics Volume :(::)

2020

• Paradoxes of Capitalism Quiz-for-Thought

2019

• Introducing Xenoreaction talk at Refactor Camp 2019

2018

• An Important Reminder from Xenogaming Industries
• xenogaming brief presentation at DCTRL in Vancouver on June 5
• So many updates… things are accelerating… are you coming to Dogecon?
• Primer on tribal politics, the Oedipal complex, demonization, basic projection dynamics
• Wrex + Holochat: The Ultimate Chat Paradigm
• Holochain application ecosystem livestream talk

2017

• Hacking Worldviews / Hacking Abstractions self-organized talk at #34c3 (slides)
• Befriendlement starter rules
• The Real S.H.I.E.L.D.: Why you should be watching Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and using it as a Holochain playbook
• Holochain Application Developer Educational Outreach Framework
• Holoptic Hackathons for Optimum Community Growth
• Decentralized Organizer's Binder, several one-pagers so far
• The Snow B.E.E.S. and Code 386
• B.E.E.S. and Colony Collapse Disorder (hyperfiction)
• T.E.A.M. Briefing 2017 (reddit thread | .md version)
• What is Ceptr? (reddit comment)

2016

• delicate.txt (short story)
• A mobile app designed to act as a contemplation device to support calm reflection, mind-wandering, and epiphanies, a proposal for my longer-term Crucible project
• Three Pamphlets on Friendship (One | Two | Three)

2015

• In the shadow of the planet, an old space station rots (short story)
• Decadence v1.0, an implementation of the ccru's game
• Decadence v2.0, adding Nummificator functionality (unfinished)
• 20 magic classes at The Internet School of Magic
• Amphium, a quick demo of my longer-term Crucible project
• Letters on Critical Activism, including two short essays:
  • But what are we going to actually DO about it?! Endless beginnings & historical context: The problem of critical activism & Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
  • What would a healthy social model of news look like?

2014

• Amphium: A contemplative grotto for self-reflection and strange-looping, an earlier proposal for my longer-term Crucible project, written as a grad school application
• @CriticalMLP, a humorous twitter I made to critique and analyze My Little Pony
• Is SotS Becoming...? series
  • The New Godzilla
  • The Game We Are Playing
  • Sophia in the machine, the mechanic saboteur
  • Is SotS becoming an ARG?
  • Is SotS becoming a Goddess cult?
  • Is SotS becoming a revolutionary cell?
  • Is SotS becoming a digital drug?
  • Is SotS becoming a spectacle?
• Read This First: Tools for Critical Activism
• Unleashing the Numogram, a book-in-progress

2013

• The Politics of Reality: Collected Essays, a collection of essays written around this time at Michigan State University
  • When Worlds Collide: Multiple Reality and Education
  • Ranciere’s Distribution of the Sensible and the Choice to Live in the Mythos of Our Choosing (reddit post 2015)
  • Combatting Lateral Distributed Processing of Topics of Conversation (reddit post 2015)
  • So, Is This a Subreddit to Memetically Engineer Society? (reddit post 2015)
  • The Ethics of Virulent Curriculum
  • My Personal Curriculum: Reflections on Autodidacticism and the Psychogeography of Curriculum (2013)
• ′Sup? Blurring the line between microblogging, task-management, and experience-sampling

2012

• Multimodal Music & the Coming Technopocalypse (9min video)

2010

• The Exciting World of Competitive High School Eating, an essay written for a neuroscience of motivation class