Art

“Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.” — Albert Camus

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Welcome!

This is misteramazing—thanks for visiting.

This is my home base. If you know me from TikTok or YouTube, that is the work where I take apart history and culture, and all of it is here too — most of it with transcripts now.

I believe in intellectual work, and intellectual work needs two things that are hard to get at once: a base to be done from, and an audience already willing to meet it. The videos built the second. This site is the first. Everything that sits behind the essays, my reading, arguments, and thoughts are all here:

EXPERIENCE IS THE FINAL JUSTIFIER OF TRUTH.

NEW HERE? Ten minutes and you will know whether the rest is for you — START HERE.

What’s Inside

START HERE — the first door NEW
VIDEO ESSAYS — all of them, with transcripts NEW
LEARNING — the second doors, and what is behind them NEW
- Premissive Philosophy — the system, 2021–2023
  - Documents for Edification — the manuscript, entire
- Historical Consciousness — the essays, still being written
ABOUT ME — who is doing the talking, and why
DISCURSIVE COMMITMENTS — the rules I have agreed to be judged by
CORRECTIONS & COMPLAINTS — how to tell me I am wrong
THE BLOG — older, looser writing

The Sprawl

a network of thoughts, laid out for dissection

What follows is Documents for Public Edification: a philosophy of thought, a philosophy of action, and a philosophy of interpretation, plus the tools used to build each. These were written between 2021 and 2023 - they are the background to how I think rather than the front of it, and I stand by a great deal of them and by no means all. The named documents in each section are the load-bearing ones; everything under “also here” clarifies them, and everything folded under “workshop” is apparatus rather than argument.

BELIEVE NOTHING WRITTEN HERE. Only if you can practice it might you begin to believe it. If you have not read anything of mine before, start here instead.

PAPERS

shorter pieces, standing on their own

depression and difference what it is to be told you are good, and not to feel any different for it
Rights in consciousness and society what a right could mean before anyone writes it down
Ends for a political phenomenology what a politics built out of experience would have to answer for

also here — Some annoyances, in review · A sketch of my reading pursuits

1. TOOLS

the instruments. read these first

System of Premissive Philosophy the argument itself. read the Preamble and stop, if you read nothing else
Refutations every objection I could think of, put at full strength and answered

also here — Reconstructive Outline · Towards a theory of introduction · Preliminaries for a transcendental hermeneutics · Preliminaries for an immanent hermeneutics · Preliminaries for a transcendental semiotics · Preliminaries for an immanent semiotics

workshop — 3 more

Prospective Outline in Totality · Against Detachment · The big plan

2. MANIFESTOS

what is to be done. no hedging

A Dialogist Manifesto face-to-face talk as both the means and the end
Manifesto for a Perpetual Progress why nothing here is ever meant to be finished

3. IDEATIONS

worlds sketched before they are argued for

Conditions for Pure Joy labour, money, possibility, more labour - and what it would take to step out
a social system of love what a community organised around affection would have to get right

also here — Conditions for the creation of a just community · Elements of a System of Social Cohesion · prelude to an encyclopedic anthropology of human coordination

workshop — 1 more

Project for Absolute Living

4. NEGATIONS

the standing order, taken apart

Explication of Neoliberal Culture how work and leisure were split, and what the split costs
the services of the status quo what the present arrangement actually does for the people inside it
The impotence of the individual why doing the right thing alone changes nothing

also here — the precession of capital · Valences of Market Desire, Plan for the Commune · Remarks on the secrets of capital · Econo-culture · Abstract consciousness · Existential-social criticism, a sketch

5. AFFIRMATIONS

what survives the taking apart

the minimum knowledge the least anyone must know to act at all
two modes of speech speaking as yourself, and speaking for something
clarifying private consciousness what is actually going on in there, said plainly

also here — immanent structure of social communication · Notes for Difference-Making · Thought and action, concretely considered · Attempt at the Creation of a Social Technology · Epistemy and its limits · Social-behavioral semiotics

6. APPENDICES

premises and conclusions, listed

Working Premises what I take for granted, and am prepared to be held to
Universal Conclusions what I should be able to show whenever I write
Synthetic Conclusions the whole system compressed to seven sentences

workshop — 2 more

Plan for all resources · Expanded List of Video Types

THE WORKSHOP

apparatus, not argument. plans for work rather than the work

workshop — 4 more

01 SCHEMA · Plan for Videos · Different video types · Project for the Critique of Internet Culture

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