The Articulation of Memory

Unlike the cosmopolis of gunpowder, or the cosmopolis of sail (which emerged in the same period), the cosmopolis of print was based on a powerful memory technology. As such, it subsumed the others, and overrode their logics where they were in conflict.

In scribal culture, it is doubtful whether the pen was trulymightier t... See more

Memory as Engineered Argument

One of the more significant conceptual advances we’ve made in three years through the Summer of Protocols program is a deceptively simple definition: a protocol is an engineered argument.

What we understand as normalcy is not an equilibrium so much as an ongoing argument we consciously manage, to navigate endemic creat... See more