Archive - Ælþ

Cargo Afloat; Cargo Submōte

What goes down with the Ship of State? What comes up?

Mar 20 •

Musical Premonitions

I have several connections to the French embassy and consultant here in Manhattan. I can’t exactly say how, but I do. Generally, I get along with…

Mar 6 •

I remember, quite vividly, the first time I saw a corpse - or rather, I should specify, what was once a corpse. The biomass that was that corpse in…

Mar 4 •

Marooned at Current Year

Korean history is a curious microcosm. For one reason or another, the medieval history of the peninsula is more similar to a Modern European state than…

Mar 1 •

February 2024

Statistically Uncomfy

Terrible things inevitably happen.

Feb 27 •

Construct-Aware

Layers of the Noosphere

Feb 4 •

December 2023

Battlestar Galactica, a Retrospective

Dec 9, 2023 •

November 2023

Princeton Speech

I was recently invited to give a short speech on networking through decline. This is something of a transcript. It borrows from a previous substack…

Nov 5, 2023 •

September 2023

A Grand Unified Mythos

Sep 9, 2023 •

August 2023

The Problem with Consciousness

Have you ever picked up a thin-shelled snail crawling across a sidewalk after a rainstorm? If you looked closely you, no doubt, saw its heart beat. It’s…

Aug 5, 2023 •

July 2023

My name is Rothbard Gilfeather. My name is also Robert Gorman. I was born either in 1991, or 1990. These discrepancies, I leave to your imagination to…

Jul 27, 2023 •

The Curve & the Void.

There’s an interesting experience falling down a well. As you fall, the vast sky above you spotlights your point of origin. Your world is, briefly, two…

Jul 23, 2023 •

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