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the andrej synkar glossary — first edition

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some of these, like hyperphoria or modernity, show up in the writings. others, like primers or manifested value, are distinctions clarified here before they even have a written form.
first edition · 01 jan 2026 · andrej synkar
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meta-speculation vs. manifested-valuemethod

1 jan 2026
there is no empirical direction of the world. abstractions dialectically get first-order weaponized by political agents, which under-values ideas; ideas re-emerge second-order as speculative machines which now act on value abstractly but dont generate it; generated value in the form of manifested empiricism in the third-order re-emerges as dominant which kills the value of speculation; then meta-speculation emerges as representing the second-order speculative machines and trying to predict them.
ideas in capitalism dont “turn out” to have always been ontologically useless but are only currently under-generative. luckily, all forms of “stition” (super, hyper, under) prevent total collapse of the value of representation (see more in the gamble of representation).

capitalcapital

1 jan 2026
capitalism, only referred to as capital is an entity, an actual acting being or deity and not a noun, represented by moloch and not formlessness, but is formless in principle, although in speculative futures it emerges as an actual exact material and symbolic reality and not just an endless simulacrum loop, which actually belongs to the halo, which is not and cannot be a time period but is purely a function unlocked by modernity.
capitalism is simply an economic order, one form of a larger political economy, that is only a historical amalgamation of practices that only incidentally sometimes intertwine with capital.

capital-beingcapital

1 jan 2026
capital other than an agent is itself a deterritorializing force with the primary function of a formless capture and suspension into what is known as the present state of things, which is permanent from the inside looking out but not from the outside looking in, because modernity produces them as nostalgia-machines, attaches to their conceived aesthetics only after their extinction, and removes from this world so that it can reintegrate empty concepts from previous worlds. it is a schizophrenic collectors-type process which is self-prophesizing and not somehow threatened by and against its own logic. capital is fully non-contradictory.
history as such (medievality, ancientism, enlightenment) dont exist, theyre practices directly connected to this order epistemologically, but only affirmed by this one. for their own totalities, they are just exact versions of this order but less developed ones. history in this sense is linear and ever evolving, but not necessarily archaeological, meaning signification is lost but somehow progress remains past even preservation itself.

modernitycapital

1 jan 2026
modernity then is a time period defined by recurrence, in that many modernities have existed. the only difference between the modernity of the medieval ages and this one isnt the suspension of history but the arrogance of the 21st century version of modernity, which actually suspends itself. capital basically constructs new worlds, capital-being affirms them as emanated and envisioned, modernity then crosses and collapses them into a narrow frame.
this narrowing has existed all throughout history and all of its modernities (ancient and pre-ancient world models also had modernity); the difference is that this one is so arrogant that it manages to re-encapsulate itself as non-totalizing by bringing in contradictory non-totality to efface itself. furthermore, totality itself is a negative and not a positive category, its categorized by collapse of functions, not elements. a world can be extremely conceptually or experientially rich (our version of modernity is the former against the latter) but still believe itself poor due to the way it treats its richness not whether it has it.

world-exterior of capitalworld

1 jan 2026
only the world-interior of capital currently exists — metaphysics as specially and conceptually uniquely derived from a political economy, characterized by lack of cosmology other than emerging internal speculation, speculative finance as replacing theological faith, money as symbol of worship, corporate owners as saints. but it doesnt serve as a metaphor: it is a new era where religion doesnt transfer onto economy but economy triumphs over religion with its own logic, meaning the religion metaphor helps us understand the world-interior and not helps the world-interior be discovered as pseudo-religious.
the future merging of art and politics thus gives birth to a world-exterior, where our current epistemic understanding of what art and politics are totally shifts and merges on ontological grounds, something which has largely not happened because epistemology progressed way faster than the make-up of the world.
the world is currently going through a reset stage where it is fully taking on a bureaucratic “tissue” of social ontology, but from this issue the new birth of a purely abstract world will come to be, where real abstractions wont just be social relations or processes but entire fundamentally exteriorizing objects. these objects unlike current literature will not be imitations, tricks, hell-spawns or illusions but will be fully operable world-states with their own logic.

deificationcapital

1 jan 2026
reification into deious forms. when conditions are named they overlap, at some point they take on a simulacrous secondary character in their common view, their sense gets changed into a theological line, after which it is posited instead of the form.
this involves media synchronization in a way that collapses all memory, experience and faith and then recodes them as general experiences in a false tertiary memory which cancels out but latches onto an artificial understanding of real (now impossible) primary experiences. those experiences are pushed further the more deification is worshipped, but usually by negative worship (rage-fuel, shitstorms, displacement as a virtual commodity with circulatory value that ends up overtaking the sense of the object).

halologyhalo

1 jan 2026
post-alienation is a state where alienation isnt a problem at all, not a state where triple-tier alienation causes a lack of alienation — which is still suspended under alienative rhetoric. a condition pertaining to the halogram: the way alienation is a general condition of estrangement due to labour relations, halonation signifies the most general condition of the speculative future few centuries of art, which are primarily connotated with three intertwined concepts from modernity.

halohalo

1 jan 2026
the halo is the contemporary amalgamation of every opening so that it collapses as a concept and points outwards to speculative metaphysics. the world-interior of capital cultivates the alien as estranged but distant, meaning we emanate the world into conditions far from us through both interpretation and access. contact is framed as the alien reaching us first, and if we contact through access we are not accessing but becoming-alien.
the medieval halo is three things: alien and distinct common substance, self-evident or rather manifest — saints through a halo emanate the spirit of another realm as a closed off yet present and influencing access-point, as if it showed up coincidentally upon them being divine enough, so also a contagious stain but a desired one, not with otherworldly power but with transcendentally self-obvious power; the alien as a force breaching the world but through harmony rather than containment (divinity taking over the body); and finally a window into another realm (heaven).

worldworld

1 jan 2026
highest-order and lowest-order manifestation. a world is not a physical space, its an abstraction and a series of ontological developments primarily that constitute something higher than a domain but lower than ontology-as-fact. worlds are not usually metaphysical, they are just superphysical. the difference between christianity and capitalism is small and constitutes a middle-ranged world due to the history of inaccessibility present in its virtuality, but as such isnt what we call a highest-order world, just a higher order one.
highest order worlds are inaccessible to pre-virtual ontologies, accessible only in limits to virtuality (in the deleuzian sense of infinite non-preemptable possibility) and fully inaccessible to technical craft aka prophecy, manifestation, cultivation or any of the sorts. they are however possible to develop, not necessarily historically or dialectically, since it is unclear if they spawn or if they are preordained, but they mark limits.
lower order worlds are event-place-space-room multi-conjunctions, somewhere between domain and realm. if a domain is a rule-space and a realm is a world-space, the lower-order world can be somewhat generative but is usually a location with mixed yet banal properties: a room that spawns more equivalent not necessarily equal rooms, a whole planet with non-abstractable objects that serve as metaphors for already-present objects from other worlds, or a fantasy space that possesses certain ontological openings but not others.

hyperhalo (halo-mirror relation)halo

1 jan 2026
the halo as theorized in its ideal form (in the world-exterior of capitalism not christianity) is at once a threshold (epistemic and not ontological, other than sacred thresholds which if not invented are impossible-possible and if invented are regulated through self-imposed higher order metaphysics: epistemy creates metaphysicity as rule, metaphysicity takes control until epistemy is actually lost and not just negated), gate (fog, way or dream), door (usually a halo is only a door if its an illusion), passage (usually only as metaphor, since travel as transport takes over the ontology of passage in contemporary modernity), bridge (direct access point with fake entrance barrier but real as a form of basic deterrence against weakest intentions; bridges arent relational anymore, theyre empty except in rare cases), veil (basically useless metaphor for regulation — what matters is what justifies regulation and whats behind the interface, not why or how the veil exists), mirror (most important one, contradiction of ontology due to epistemology rather than due to ontology; mirrors dont do anything but if a halo is a mirror thats the best possible sign, and very rare), rift (always aggressive either passively or actively, influence into genocide or war into dystopia, and never ambivalent due to portal-centrism), wormhole (main form of transport, closure of bubble-metaphysics in favor of surface metaphysics; cars arent ontologically private so they arent bubbles, so economico-spiritually that doesnt count), and axis (mostly disabled under capitals influence over contemporary modernity).
the limits of the hyperhalo present precisely the limits of the present ontology, not its transgression.

ontological openingshalo

1 jan 2026
passage-bridge-veil, door-gate-limen, mirror-worm-rift, axis-realm-domain are the four types of openings. they are connected by a certain logic: relational opening, selective opening.

domainhalo

1 jan 2026
a domain is a general name for any form of ontological opening that has its own “room-idea”, but in more advanced terms a domain² is the particular inscription point of any opening-form presenting as a hyperhalo.

primersworld

1 jan 2026
the future ontological building block of capital. a primer is both subject and object, in that the infrastructure of users in the stack are themselves artificial technical objects aka robot-humanoids built out of primers, which are technical components that serve as matter but are intrinsically very complicated machines, which also serve identically as the objects of the interacting world.
primers are designed under the holistic philosophy of equivalent matter-forms, because it is a matter-commodity rather than a simple piece of matter, so that its design philosophy isnt just mass produced, a form of social relation, a territory to manage rather than care for, and a statement of regulation rather than a body-surface to regulate. furthermore and especially, primers are an attempt for cyclical ontology envisioned in real time, deleuzes collapse of superstructure-infrastructure, where primers are multiple components constantly shifting, like an advanced form of playdough.

substratesworld

1 jan 2026
primers contain lower and higher substrates. the higher ones determine the artificial and synthesizing ontological force and cant be designed but occur; the lower substrates are also actual physical locations but engineered ones, where organic matter is fully simulated by technical proxy but remains organic. the organic-synthetic divide is surpassed materially and not just epistemologically, all components of the world coexist and regulate each other.
components experience massive scaling and stretching: intricate and frail components are forced to be fields of protection, “protein-blocks” have a forced indiffusion function, “oil” components transform into matter, matter literally recycles back into energy, sensors, panels and transistors work as physical objects, transform into tables and chairs or whatever abstract representation of physical constraint, walls turn into openings, halos open and close dimensions, physical items emerge as augmented or functionally commanded action-prompts and literally turn into symbols, language is encrypted materially, thinking occurs through space.
most of this is speculative; the real practical primer is historically limited. the first version simply involves: a fully organic-synthetic coalition of any form of matter at that historical point of distinction, the ability for two distinct halo-forms to operate simultaneously or feed data into one another, a simple material transformability (turning a “rock-extension” into a “wood-extension”), simple augmented thinking patterns, and technical scripts that work in unison — a single operating space built out of its own machination that serves dishwashing, clothes-cleaning and floor sweeping within the same “room-box”.

potentiatorworld

1 jan 2026
for aristotle prime matter is the thing that underlies all other things in the world: transcendent and unreachable, completely indeterminate-pure potentiality, not created and indestructible. what the ontology of capitalism does with prime matter in the speculative future is make this matter one that is a combination of every single type of substance in the world — every object-as-commodity, every experience, every unique texture, every predicate and relation, every being. essentially it is the only thing that exists, it has every mechanization, every transformation, it literally transverses and overcomes technic and ontological and particular experience, it crashes and makes everything ontic. it also serves as the archetype for transcendentality itself.
the potentiator is the meta-speculative version of prime matter, the building schematic for primers, which are the actual executables of the same idea with far less practical intricacy than this theoretical final goal.

matrixesworld

1 jan 2026
matrixes are primer components, or rather schematics that, like neurons, literally argue back and forth, wager and compromise between ontological forms. formats arent predecided, but are a literal battleground for primers to partake in, actively ritualizing the function of instrumental ontology for non-instrumental means. primers have their own political wars, self-dividing based on desire and intention. primers are also used by other primers in the form of a superstructure-infrastructure re-divide, but with the obvious ironic backdrop of material equality.

capital spacecapital

1 jan 2026
capital also wants to equalize space so that literally all points or territories in the entire order of the world coincide with one another. the navigator of the world spans you throughout realms, but the spaces you inhabit are generalized and equalized, technically making your position equal the position of another within the order of the world itself, only being different in the point or coordinate of its exact location rather than the actual environment around which a subject orients or exists. every view, every relation, every possible way to interact with the world is made equalized, so that at any point in time, any and every agent has the same outlook, orientation and field of view, surrounded by the same commodial circumstances, with technical objects and their maps or navigations preceding actual being-in-the-world.

the three directions of capitalcapital

1 jan 2026
inspired by an anonymous online commentator. one: a sacred timeline that ends with heat death — one predetermined, written, monitored, governed, documented, legislated timeline. two: infinite branching accumulating to intense annihilation — infinities exceeding infinity, chaos, pure infinite speed of determinations. three: “chaosmos”, infinite branchings and multiversality, but limited by an inner, in-principle reciprocity, connecting all branches into one tunnel of cosmos — order and chaos balanced, crowned anarchy.
capitalism-as-alien-force is driving us to chaosmos; all the other fragmented parties want to create other occurrences. science wants to create the sacred timeline, and accelerationism and the fragmented situationists want to create infinite intense annihilation, not literally through will or intention but by ontological succession. what is happening (with ai and information war) is that politics is finally becoming metaphysics, and doesnt exist without it.

halogramhalo

1 jan 2026
actual halos theologically are also possible but are functionally different in some ways. base essence also fluctuates, but since contemporary modernity reterritorializes its own cliche-form-takings of the past, they are essentially the same even if essentially different.
halograms are technical assemblages that encompass various machine-forms: social relation, forms of exchange and circulation. the halogram is inscribed by way of a new form of grammatization that isnt a language but about lapses of experience encoded into momentary-actions in the form of immediate impulses that are replayed. this replaying literally phases ontologically into the cultivation of new domains, accessed through either hyperhalos as epistemic totalities, as rare object-forms, or as halographs as technical mass produced objects.

halographhalo

1 jan 2026
an advanced commodity in its basic form; its technical specifications are difficult to speculate. we can assume its partially ontologically fake, so that openings are difficult to concentrate into one domain-form. it likely uses similar opening-types so as to save up on ontological energy. advanced halographs with actual hyperhalo connection possibility are likely proddities. the amount of possible worlds is usually pre-created under consumer uses of halographs. lower order worlds usually stop being domains or realms quickly and present as general simulations, which is the lowest and least generative mode of hyperreality.

portal-halo relationhalo

1 jan 2026
the medieval “portal” is a gateway or a divine door to a church so that new metaphysical locations arise on earth, but the contemporary portal is either an access-point to another world but not another realm (the newly portalled world is desanctified as part of this one but not accessible with anything other than portal-as-wormhole) or aliens accessing our world in a contained manner so that it becomes a rift-portal, which is always aggressive either passively or actively and never ambivalent due to portal-centrism as pertains to modernity as a general centeredness and not as some basic hypocrisy.

de-centerednesshalo

1 jan 2026
the axis mundi generally isnt a part of a halo because connectedness now happens through the vacuum of travel, time and wave rather than through a centeredness or coalition, so that emanation starts being a signal and not a source in contemporary halos. the halo itself then turns into a weapon: it doesnt appear, inasmuch as halographs are literally created and halograms begin to grammatize and stratify society in other ways also, in future speculative metaphysical politics.
in art-politics circles, the halo is basically a moment in time where the modern aura (accident turned intent) works as a pseudo-portal to other worlds as self-emanation of divine forces, but usually economically divine (deified-reified) not theologically divine (deified-sacred).

holohalo

1 jan 2026
holographs and holograms as they already exist are simply abstracted further to be representations of the world that unlock aspects of openings through waves as an essential fundamental aspect of the world rather than of specific medical practices. but ontologically, new waves and signals are literally produced and actually have an effect on the constitution of the world anyways; it isnt just an exploitation of existing marks in the world that produce copies that act as simulations and take on ontological form.
when they do this, which they havent yet, holo ghosts are a type of spirit marked by the will of the stratification inherent to wave-interjected representation as a base epistemic reality. the haunting of a hologhost happens through a dispersion of representation: the metric itself becomes swollen, not into false representation but into de-representative reality, which opens either its own realm or even a rift depending on the outcome.

modern auraart

1 jan 2026
holograms or their encoding are also the modern version of aura, tied to halos in that they happen due to the grammatization of the halogram. holos are tied to the concept of “aura-farming”, where impulse → action → experience → encoding → replay → grammatization of memory → new impulse forms its own loop that gives birth to a new ontology.
representationally, the modern version of aura is already connected to the conceptual but also literal practice of streaming, which isnt just a media practice but a real-time re-encoding of values through a reinterpellation of what a moment is: a moment as a series of photographs, conceptual not literal ones, that actually create a temporary benjaminian aura thats tied to subjects rather than objects. the holo is simply the ontologization of this fact, but aura farming as such is already a type of representational and logical holo.

instanity / immediacyart

1 jan 2026
an instagram is already happening through the platform-app-sovereign cloud by the same name, but immediacy is still ontologically fresh and subject to happenstance. moments themselves will get stretched, which dont give rise to mediation the way we understand it, but do complicate and evolve what happens in immediacy: what appears, what actions can be done, and what can be registered in any immediate moment.
immediacy itself is accelerated to fit in with the tempo-demands of the world, so that intrinsically immediacy no longer serves mediacy on a base-by-base ratio but messes with the construction of mediation itself. as this happens, a binary and non-fluid, rigid, line-accentuated conflict happens between the two, where one always takes over a certain percentage of the totality of both and shifts the context of how they interact (more in the phenomenology of immediacy).

portalhalo

1 jan 2026
refer to halo.

proddityworld

1 jan 2026
private commodity; advanced and speculative, appearing in the far future. the private circulation of a single extremely complex organism that self-duplicates and is “copied” around. what is copied is not just the object but all of its memories in the form of experiences as transfused into functional processes tied to the possession of the object. the primary passive act it corresponds to is worship, not use-value.

hyperphoriaart

1 jan 2026
a system-level condition in which bodies, acts and avatars detach from stable grounds under total technicization. its a future speculative ontology not currently in existence. hyperphoria produces subjects that accelerate their own bodily composition and consistently swap out their avatars in an attempt to artificially synchronize their felt sense of self with their now fully commodificationally derived product of their subjectivity, or their idea of fundamental characteristics that pertain to them.
since all of these characteristics only serve to feed into a composed market-form, none of them feel experienced, so the fundamental embodiment turns them into a kind of “store of the body”. this isnt just a normally reified subject without a tiqqunian form-of-life such as in our contemporary world, but a fundamentally and increasingly anxious disposition, that ends up literally creating living artifacts, and sometimes, although rarely, living artworks on the very body of the hyperphoriac.

thymosisart

1 jan 2026
a new psychological state where self-salience is replaced with world-salience due to hyperphoria. it also causes the death of alienation and its tiers (triple alienation basically causes non-alienation but it still leaves so-called “fragments”), whereas thymosis is the psychological destruction of the “bodily soul” instead of the “mind soul”, as a result of the way the halo defines how hyperphoria occurs and which conditions it spawns.
as a condition, thymosis doesnt present as a loss of reality but as a loss of the frame under which reality rests: a functionalization of phenomenology where total non-permanence of existence that nonetheless is regulated by everchanging forms leads to hyperphoria — the dissolution of stable forms of safety, artifactification — under the guise of the hologram, where new subjects are produced with lasting forms of novelty that nonetheless dont possess any aura. they have no grounded, coded or obvious appearance or essence-level originality, but are suspended in a state where they are so alien to the current conditions of things that they “appear” as if they have aura while being unable to signify the unique constraints that make this possible.
post-alienation, de-framing and artifactification basically cause a total psychosis in certain states, but hyperphoria is usually light and ontology still has regulating mechanisms, so thymosis requires a special condition, except its a physical and not a mental one. to speculate, it could be something like a halogrammatic delirium: coming into contact with too many halos too quickly.

de-framing, artification & post-alienationart

1 jan 2026
refer to thymosis and halology.

depiction vs. belonging in artart

1 jan 2026
art is primarily “depicted” as itself rather than something else. the death of the author becomes ontological rather than epistemic when art itself becomes social rather than aesthetic, existential or political (it goes in this order of evolution). in this stage, belonging in art is belonging fully as a part of art, but functionally, so that others conceive your subjecthood not as reified but as directly depictive.
zoos, spectacles and performances are training grounds for this future manifestation, but it is clear that the subject-actor is alienated from actual arthood in their own presentation in these forms. then, depiction itself goes from depicting nature-from-the-outside to depicting self-nature-from-the-inside. future art looks “medical” in this sense, and porn (as seen in pornologicalities) quite literally is an early simulation of this deeper process of ontological artification.

cryptographic internalitycapital

1 jan 2026
capitalisms formlessness is due to the meritocracy of contemporary modernity, not due to capital as an entity. capital essentially hides its encryptions within encryptions, so that the moment you encrypt an object of value, you take in some of its value in a corrupted way that capital doesnt intend, but as a result lose most of the form while gaining most of the intensity or value of said object all the same — hence the internality of encryption as crypto-cryption. cryptographs arent ontological, which is the only reason capital as such currently dominates.

abstract labourart

1 jan 2026
the world-exterior of capital and its speculative value will give birth to a new type of “politics of art” where symbolic value is in representing abstraction itself, as marina vishmidt already shows: abstract value is socially encoded through the lack of use value in something, as speculative currency over circulation rather than over labour, where symbolic exchange happens as a circulation of messages that pertain to the shifting, extending and accelerating of abstract value as such. this “artifies” political landscapes through media ecologies.

modern / quaternary memorymethod

1 jan 2026
memory becomes ontological rather than mnemotechnical as depicted under other terms. another way to speak of it is quaternary retention, in that retention itself is re-articulated into living rather than dead memory, but shifts the landscape under which memory lands, making it inequivalent with the first three forms.

hipster & celebrityart

1 jan 2026
hologrammatic aura is used in the speculative future through halographs that swap the tiqqunian hipster (de-essentialized in soul but stable in-form alienated actor) and the baudrillardian celebrity (essentialized soul but destabilized in-form alienated actor) the other way around. it becomes fashionable to lack an essence but to retain a stable appearance so as to prevent hyperphoria or even thymosis.

speculative practicalitymethod

1 jan 2026
this creates a new direction of thought that is both speculative and practical simultaneously: the real strategy is neither the epistemic questioning of the priest ascetic nor the practical solutions of the scientists, but the road where imagination corresponds with drive, where we let the scale handle the operations and material strategy, and just literally wish the world into existence. the most practical thing to do is exactly to keep creating the cultural forms that we will discover in real time, whether they work or not in the way we imagined them at the time, at a far later date.
this principle i call “the it exists but maybe not that way” principle, where the problem of the alchemists wasnt that they discovered that you cant resurrect a living being through reorienting it and accumulating its differentials in organic experimentation, but that you need to create the hypothetical reorientation device that lets you do that very same thing, even if it wasnt an initial principle of the base-moment-of-the-world at the exact moment you tried to do that thing and failed.

verification-identificationmethod

1 jan 2026
using yorans concept of identification directly: jesus’ body literally needed to be confirmed for whether it was a real sensible object or not, and that never happened, because thats what they claimed. a literal verification process is needed. what a real sensible object needs to do is to capture at every phenomenal level the exact feeling that corresponds to the thing-ness of whatever it captures at every interval. real sensible objects scale: it can have as many interfaces as it wants but it needs to be plugged into the thing that can evaluate whether it achieves this status or not yet.
when i say the portal creates a new domain i mean it literally, since it doesnt matter whether you build a real sensible object from scratch or it already appears pre-made. the reason we can speculate about the hypothetical jesus body this way is that we can literally just argue that aliens engineered it to correspond to the real object of god.
you might bring up the obvious: doesnt this lose the transcendental function if its measured, how will you measure feelings? these questions dont really matter since theyre open problems, since only sensible objects can actually create the necessary progress in this direction anyways, so its not like it destroys the system. it has done away with the nihilism of past transcendental philosophy entirely, and operates on a distinctly ontological register. nobody needs to or even can do it intentionally or unintentionally; scientists could be making machines that dont lead to real objects at all. none of it matters until primers are actually built first.

the real object’s goalsmethod

1 jan 2026
the real object cannot be allowed to be an enabling structure, cannot be the final form of the fourfold itself, and cannot be the representative essence (archetype) behind a concept. it must be three distinct things that are connected and not tied to any of those mechanisms.
one, the teleological goal: the real object becomes sensible, which means it transcends its essence. the real object must have gravitas — it is not an operational or instrumental object (like a phone, which does have noumenal gravitas but has specific functions); the real object turned sensible object masks its own sensible form so well that it “appears” like a real object. so far only one real object has existed on this planet, the body of jesus, but it remains unverified, and there will be more, and they likely wont be made of flesh.
two, what the real object does enable is the conditions for a transference into specific domains: it is the domains themselves. a portals real object isnt the possibility of interspatial transfer, its actually a portal that does transfer you to a different world. real objects arent metaphors “ingrained” in real things, they are real things ingrained with the fantasy of metaphor — they become matter. three, potentiators are simply real objects that have real qualities at every development.

strainingmethod

1 jan 2026
strains are a good way to phrase it, but we need to strain towards it: literally all of the generative power of things already exists with us. this is the hegel-marx materialist thing, and the reason it works is because we can confirm that we have generative power. things cannot possibly emanate from real objects into creating sensible objects or whatever.
harmans “so to sq is time” is bullshit; clearly time is more like sq to sq, and then the real object of time is something totally unrelated, such a higher order type of time that it doesnt even compute in our minds how it could possibly work. the point is, we create the real object through sensible qualities by building up to it. we have all the generative power, and if im harmanian about it, the “we” is just every sensible object. the fact harman doesnt clearly label the we as us plus other sensible objects means hes continuing the delusion that real objects are constantly around us even if none of us can ever access them. if we cant access them theyre functionally useless and therefore dont exist. we need to be building towards real objects, not expecting them to build towards us.

the big noumenal problemmethod

1 jan 2026
the through-line across all of these: everyone who seriously tries to build a noumenal world either smuggles phenomenological content into it (schopenhauer, bergson) or dissolves the boundary between noumenal and phenomenal by making the interior a continuous process with the exterior (whitehead, peirce).

hypergenerationmethod

1 jan 2026
for a year or two now ive been slowly working into a theory of the noumenal as constructed by the phenomenal (not its content) and as not immediately tied or continued through their intrinsic, interior relationship. speculating on the exact details of real or ideal objects is a part of approaching them, and every single material force or process is an aspect of the path to getting there.
in my vision, the noumenal makes the phenomenal possible only indirectly rather than causally, and emanation itself is hyperstition: the force that tries to discover the noumenal is actually the highest representation of the noumenons effect on the phenomenal world, a kind of exact backwards neoplatonism, where withdrawal into our world is the closest we get to drawing into the other world rather than the other way around.

third party actor threatnetwork

1 jan 2026
a sphere of existence so distant from yours that it cannot help but structurally see you as abject, replaceable or exploitable. third party actors range in possible withdrawnness from you by degrees of assumption, which are based not on how much they do imply you but negatively, by how much they dont imply you. a thing can fail to imply you quantitatively infinitely, successively in increasing ways.

third party threat stacknetwork

1 jan 2026
as more third party actor threats pile up, they start to fight with each other, creating the algopol, although they also create a threat-stack: an increasingly commodified field that cancels out entire realms of possibility for various agents, often creating systemic consequences or directly influencing possible living in unpredictable, invisible or unmodifiable ways, or by creating constraints in labour, socialization, basic contact with the world, or forms of realization and cultivation of meaning that work perpetually to boost one another.

the real networknetwork

1 jan 2026
an arrangement of unconnected individuals suddenly becoming connected, and therefore implied or influenced by one another, not just in a status economy but often in a survival economy too, by an overhead system (a third party actor without any interests in them) that banalizes their relations. the relation is not organic, reciprocal, or socially mediated; it is not influenceable, changeable or perceivable in its totality. it does not occur, it just suddenly emerges, and it is far more powerful than all hitherto systems of social organization.

algorithmic magicnetwork

1 jan 2026
a system that slowly perpetuates conflicts towards specific networks created by corporations to create financial profit and extract human intelligence, not in the form of data as “learning human behavior” but as “creating the conditions of influence to destroy human systems of mediation built throughout thousands of years”.

algorithmic weaponsnetwork

1 jan 2026
a series of continuous events hosted by or at home inside the real network that create the future conditions for profitable suffering and its extractive circuit of perpetuation; also a way to organize and plan these circuits by deploying them through algorithmic magic.

conflict protocolnetwork

1 jan 2026
certain algorithms attach to certain networks through specifically organized strategic plans, often created by the same planned logic as war.

platformic internetnetwork

1 jan 2026
an interface created for network algorithms that serves as a shell for future network-commodities, meaning future ways of organizing social forms of organization by quantifiably and scale-wise more commodified means. the platformic internet itself is an interface for networks and serves their future interests more than existing as involved in the present state of things, even if an interface is experienced as present-facing.

netpolnetwork

1 jan 2026
network-platform-politics: when survival and status economies merge in the networked algorithm, a new type of political entertainment emerges, one that starts to multiply figures in larger quantities of relation, organizing them negatively. the netpol contains personalities and avatars which are commodified service-persons who control domains and realms, informationally and ideologically loaded territories that “stand in” for all possible human experience.

negative figurenetwork

1 jan 2026
a key node in a netpol, often a celebrity figure stuck in a certain level of simulacrum. largely, this figure does not withdraw success inside this system by defining anything but by being increasingly defined. they are the modern variation of a myth, except usually over a living subject that does not necessarily possess necessary or vital control over this.

algopolnetwork

1 jan 2026
branded internet: corporations fight over their own influence rather than over their products or territories, becoming defined by waging their own stakes as a totality of imagination across other stakes. the algopol increasingly contests the space within which the netpol exists, and to some extent attempts to replace or remove the netpol from existence.

guildpolnetwork

1 jan 2026
the internet forums replacement for social mediation or social communication, where social communication becomes consumer politics: politics without stakes but with sides, a mass-surveillance state, a weaker and more modifiable, spyable, influenceable sphere of human contact, increasingly logically corrupted from within. usually it is increasingly standardized by synchronizationalist structures, replicated by diagrammatized logic, and having already conquered social communication, serves to replace the logic of existing social mediation with a new, usually politically dangerous logic. the guildpol increasingly serves as a mediator between algopol and netpol rather than as its own domain, as it becomes conquered from within. the guildpol is not the fantasy of the original internet nor its possibility.

stakes-worldnetwork

1 jan 2026
a non-economic relation of craft that increasingly becomes organized by systems that apply the logic of war planning to the logic of general planning, changing the form-of-world to treat the stakes-world as resourceful extraction rather than experiential extraction, and so transforming power into a more communicable and profitable but less possible version of itself.

the second stakes-worldnetwork

1 jan 2026
a cheap copy of the original stakes-world, cultivated in the remnants of the prior stakes-world by agents who can increasingly not maintain it but still seek to: a simulacrum of original experience.

dollplayingcoined

from the gamble in representation · original · 8 may 2026
overexpanded commentary that doesnt tie to ones own project is a form of liturgical infantilism, too abstracted from manic obsessivity to be considered a devotion, too legitimized to be compelling, too redundant to be important; figures are endlessly reconfigured into the will of whoever touches them. so how is it a sin to do that same process, but intentionally and outwards? dollplaying is the only honest way to engage figures.

positional intent & structural leniencycoined

from the gamble in representation · original · 8 may 2026
deferral depends on the writing. certain structural semiotics have varying deferrals of meaning where the same concept swaps the level of signification and creates connotations, and then there are others where its more outward facing and creates denotations that are inherent to it. some words act like walls and others like rivers, and this depends not on the word but on the position + intent + sentence-level multiword context.
the partiality doesnt depend on associative imagination or degrees of freedom though, it basically depends on the structural leniency of the text itself as a style; the way it was written ends up dictating how the words behave in reiterations.

aesthetic fixers & aesthetic imagescoined

from the gamble in representation · original · 8 may 2026
theres two types of it, aesthetic fixers and aesthetic images. the former is when you imagine a tree in your head to stabilize the reading of tree when you encounter it in text; the latter, the image, is for actually understanding the word as something intimate and weird. its not supposed to look like an image of a tree, its a vague impression of a totally unrelated image, but if you argue for it or present it, it could strengthen not only your texts but others, and how everyone perceives texts to begin with.

mundaneccentriccoined

from sacrifice in the mortuary of the autist · original · 5 jan 2026
the happening of this regulation is as domesticated as the operative logic of domesticity itself, which means the mundaneccentric often eludes capture by this machine. the mundaneccentric escapes the crutches of regulative capital, but, problematically, the mundaneccentric is never capable of revealing the political long enough to leave a lasting impression; it can only cause structural invisibilities and unperceived changes to the mediograndic, so it is often left to its devices in an unaltered state.

mediograndecoined

from sacrifice in the mortuary of the autist · original · 5 jan 2026
the mundaneccentric is the remnant of the original inner worldists, the original autists who built the world. the mediogrande is the self-optimizing machine of the newly avant garde common world, which sets its own conditions irregardless of prior context. a beautiful and worthy, but fundamentally meaningless operation, for all aesthetics (experience + sense) has been lost to ethics (axiomated drives, processing processes and machines of justification-capture).

the eccentric quocoined

from sacrifice in the mortuary of the autist · original · 5 jan 2026
the status quo must be vaporized by the eccentric quo, as its slowly to be turned outward, as is the natural order — the natural imposition requested by eccentricity is scalability, complexity and reformulatory constructions of all living mentalities into complexified degrees, into further abstractions.
but these abstractions must be controlled and channeled properly, yet they have been abused and misguided. there is no way to turn them off, there is no way to find their source, nobody even knows why they exist anymore, the abstractions themselves have been alienated.

desire-directioncoined

from sacrifice in the mortuary of the autist · original · 5 jan 2026
desire-direction is the fundamental weapon, which can only be appropriately used by the most greedy sect of autists, who have stabbed themselves with their own weapon out of admiration for its qualities — achieving and already having achieved — and re-achieving — ultimate narcissism.

speculative foreclosurecoined

from political economy in its production of dogmatism · original · 8 nov 2025
speculative foreclosure describes a loss of “post-capacity” (the false problem of determination as described by the illusion of capacity) to generate non-integrated “original novelty”.

artificial spooks & the dominant conceptcoined

from political economy in its production of dogmatism · original · 8 nov 2025
spooks not requiring attachment towards disillusioned objectivity but rather the relativistic counterpart that allows for the illusion of a stable set of metaphysical grounding points to enable the movement of conceptual interchangeables in recognizable surroundings.
which causes the concept of ideology to equalize with the dominant concept — which differs from a spook on account of its existing non tangible (floating) nature (real, value, other, doom, absolute), which then implicitly serves as a critique of perceived value relativism, where the subject that judges assumes he doesnt contain within him the ability to judge non-deterministically.

the original hiddencoined

from political economy in its production of dogmatism · original · 8 nov 2025
meanwhile, the truly organic opaque mystery isnt the cyberspace, its the original hidden (meaning, the original novelty, which is both artificially productive and superficially originating, yet also still originally intended to be concealed, so that there is no illusion of choice in its concealment masquerading as a properly new (postmodern) environment.
even transparency is simulation because transparency itself is the logic of concealment in the face of a traumatic origin by flipping the law-set whichever side you want it to stay on.

critical non-identiary juxtapositioncoined

from the balkan world enters the prestige economy · original · 20 jul 2025
critical non-identiary juxtaposition, one of the modes of the fair criticism, is the proper and even pure engagement with the object of “art” — art here means all objects of shared experience, not simply some material object that has a suffocating title — which also isnt art but a territorial dispute. art is free to be, in so far as it pertains to its active appearance in a setting.
the instant appearance is an instant art form, even social communication is an art, that is recognized for its strengths precisely because its missing the suffocating function that supposedly “higher-perceived” territorial-status arrangement disputes hold claim over.

ultra-trashcoined

from the urban middle class and the substratum of permission · original · 5 jun 2025
commodities are merely ultra-trash — trash comes in degrees, the first degree, the second and third. the first degree of trash is the alternative logic, meaning waste itself is not an expenditure by the subject under capital, nor is it somehow greater than natural waste, which itself doesnt exist beyond the declarations of the naturalist. trash itself is the arbitrary form of logic within a system, which is itself operationalized and subsumed.
the second degree is the commodity, which is not a map of social relations which dont even exist under contemporary society, but is instead a form of extended trash. third-tier trash is religion itself, which is the waste product of engagement with practical reality.

anommoditiescoined

from the urban middle class and the substratum of permission · original · 5 jun 2025
artistic pieces should be termed “anommodities” the way that no amount of aura of historical equivalence or relevance can ever raise them as something with intrinsic value above or beyond the disgusting waves of equivalence and assumed social relations (but really lack thereof) that poison and spook the agent of history into believing he is performing dialectical manoeuvres.

the concessorcoined

from the urban middle class and the substratum of permission · original · 5 jun 2025
capture itself as a term doesnt capture the level of lethality, this is more like total concession. we are stuck in the concessor, a deep syrup, the child of capital, the concessive stew of the world, which takes itself for granted, it does not work by the logic of release or escape, it has no external vents, and its suffocation is quite literal, demanding as an apriori functional feature of its epistemic ontology. the concessor is auto-demanding so that capture itself becomes a mythology, it is even a question of whether capture was even a thing to begin with.

the permission sub-classcoined

from the urban middle class and the substratum of permission · original · 5 jun 2025
essentially, the modern economy is no longer primarily a system of merchants trading goods, but a system of merchants trading permissions: permission to work, to appear, to be recognized, to belong, to have taste, to possess a future. this is because, well, the economy doesnt need the urban middle class at all. its an entirely automated system already, a self-defining goliath.
this has led to the permission sub-class to recodify work-ethic through a sense of latent responsibility about ability itself, rather than reproduction. to want to work means to want to prove not that you are useful, but that you are allowed.

lift & exterioritycoined

from the external theory of value · original · 28 apr 2026
its actually making room for a teleological reading: capital isnt lifting towards more conquerable territories or existing alien logics as conquerable, but existing alien logics as superior. thats what is actually meant by external, not external to this planet or to this culture or to this logic, but external towards all possible moves of perceiving specifically what the positive version of lift can do.
“space is a field of ideological potentials, not material ones” thats the basic idea. there are forms out there emanating higher versions of themselves.

the skilltree hypothesiscoined

from the external theory of value · original · 28 apr 2026
every single cultural practice behind it has an entire assemblage of possible cultural artifacts that when “activated” the right way (myth / ritual / augment) actually create not just cultural information but a civilizational progress, in the sense that social forms of organization themselves are able to unlock hidden or laden native metaphysical principles from scratch; and if society as it so happens only orders power narrowly along whatever inherited basis of metaphysical assumption it currently holds, it actively limits itself from unlocking whatever ontologies it abandoned.

the dragon devicecoined

from the external theory of value · original · 28 apr 2026
a third type of dragon, a dragon device, is a dragon in the sense of being an actual mythical social script: its not actually a physical or mental dragon but the form of something “kind of” like a dragon, yet, whatever it is, it would carry with it new forms of its own concept. imagine civilizational organization structures as eggs themselves, as literal cultivation machines that simulate the future existence of a dragon-form.

the law of cruelty & the standing monkeycoined

from the speculative bestiary of cruelty · original · 20 mar 2026
all world-forms are creatures that abide by the logic of evolutionary viability. creatures arent a special earthly accident, nor a cascade of violent chance, nor are they ever permitted to escape their form and transmute into higher beings. creatures are world-forms, they are all allegories of one another to limited degrees, and fixed principles.
i think the standing monkey isnt the exception, its just another law of cruelty. why do i want to not exceptionalize it? well precisely because i need to make it okay, to make it temporary, or i cant live with this fact.

hypergenescoined

from the speculative bestiary of cruelty · original · 20 mar 2026
not naturalized genes, but genes as in the possibility of a being to not be extinct, genes as in cultural modes of preservation. hypergenes you could say. the essential prototype is under danger. but not the question of the being. there is only one reason that corporations arent pushing even faster for the enshittification of broilers and thats because to conceptually defend them means to understand that they are a cosmological suffering cult and not a simple byproduct of commodity capitalism.

power spirits & iminationscoined

from the world charged with spirits · original · 18 mar 2026
power spirits then arise as domesticated appearance-representation beings into non-correlated forms that no longer contain forces — imitatory emanations of pure spirit — simple iminations. an imination becomes the vision of a power spirit that no longer contains either of its equations; in its post-represented reality it stands as what is called simply a territory.
power spirits secondly arise as a regulatory framework that shapes future representations into iminations, since iminations require that their imitatory capacity become pleromatized and illuminated through the drawing force of enspiritation. the power spirit empowers the imination, giving cause to the territory.

the armature skeletoncoined

from the armature construct · original · 1 jan 2026
the armature skeleton can be decomposed, and every bone revealed, but never in the lived relation. it is truly bones we are speaking about. you are in the center of an open apartment, sometimes closed off in a wooden dome, which is the architectural eidos. the bones are the wood, you are part of a construct, but the eidos is not in the wood, not in the commodity, nor your relations.
in the armature, the assumed relationship defeats the real one. what is the second assumption? it is the one that turns the hammer into its image, it is not an abstraction, but a realized abstraction that changes the way we think of our relationship to it, not the relationship itself.

syncline, keelson & selvagecoined

from the armature construct · original · 1 jan 2026
there is a selvage, the finished edge of woven fabric that prevents unraveling, the border that holds the relations. there is a cleat, and that is the moment a corner becomes alive in an apartment, which happens when corners get rearranged by rearranging objects.
the syncline is to the bones of the armature what the keelson is to the selvage: one is the outer layer of the inner layer, the other is the inner to the outer. the selvage holds to unravelling, the keelson is the layer that unravels when the armature switches layers.

intraflectioncoined

from the future history of affect · original · 24 jan 2026
intraflection is primarily, beyond everything else a form of regulation that prevents the unsubstantiated crossing of thresholds: basically, a state-crafted derivative technological assemblage that creates anti-accelerationist drift, usable primarily for things like controlling the possibility of evading certain institutional prerogatives by fixing identities into institutionally pre-derived plans.

subfliction & exoflectioncoined

from the future history of affect · original · 24 jan 2026
subfliction is a type of low-grade stress reminiscent of angst or anxiety, except with neither moral-cosmological nor existential-political dimensions. subfliction is an effect and not an affect; institutions dont produce it, individuals create it in order precisely to calm their own newly non-autonomic nervous systems down.
it goes like this: an institution gives you a system, you collapse it, bind it outward, exoflect it, your exoflection paints the contours of this system. then, if it bounces back worse, you produce a type of subfliction.

reflict & sentiment liquiditycoined

from the future history of affect · original · 24 jan 2026
this itself overwrites the then replacement of affect into self-induced subflict into reflict, decoding it into a repetitive impact which weakens the value of sensor-as-sensation-induced verification, leading to sentiment liquidity, causing affects to first lose their value and become diluted, becoming at some point conflated with finance as a form of currency.

flunkiedomcoined

from the phenomenology behind bullshit jobs · original · 20 jan 2026
the core function of a flunkie is not just status display, but in practical utility: their job is status display, that is to say, the practical utility harnessed through status display is itself reappropriated through the lens of a larger status display. hence, flunkies are superstructures meant to regulate in-between zones, they are navigational in nature.
a flunkies existence is to engage the client in a combat scheme, a type of informational wall, so that the client never actually manages to libidinally or productively attach to the idea that the environment can be mentally accessed or reconfigured.

the new castle & the black boxcoined

from owen hatherley, militant modernism · ideas · 5 apr 2026
brutalism is the negotiation between the living environment otherwise known as the “shelter” and “the space that comes into it”, whereas ikea modernism (black boxes) are the pure distinction between the container and the space around it as a negotiation for how much can be contained.
black boxes “highlight” certain areas of themselves, they literally laser-point the sun into certain features of themselves, boxing you into them, whereas new castles accidentally point to their own desertion.

the anti-economic vacuumcoined

from larry wolff, paolina’s innocence · ideas · 17 may 2026
the anti-economic vacuum is not supposed to point only towards the false conceptualization behind assumptions about the conditions of innocence that institutions and civil life have closed into the child, but that also, civil life itself begins to constitute children through a counter-vacuum that simultaneously lowers their agency, prevents predation and exterior contact, and shoves them into a simulation that slowly creates the very asymmetries that become self-revelatory about the child.
the ontology of an anti-economic vacuum would quickly reveal — rather than desecrate or remove — the dependencies that civil life requires in order to constitute subjects in the way that it does.

the civil object & the urbanspherecoined

from anton vidokle, the pool is already there · ideas · 3 sep 2026
anything staged in front of the theatre becomes a civil object. the swimming pool isnt just where dirty bodies come to be allowed to be washed off in a public setting, the civil object itself declares its significance. “that old pool over there” is a real institution, not a reliable conduit.
the urbansphere, as the most basic unit that brings forth a domain which is stakable, is also the sphere responsible later for what type of yields can come about, so naturally it has a backwards effect on labour too.

pledgeoriginationcoined

from anton vidokle, the pool is already there · ideas · 3 sep 2026
a pledge is also an ability to contain the necessary capacity for future obligations, and secretly communicates a circuit of civic volitions not easily represented by budgets, wills, commandments or political turmoil. a pledge means something like a non-certified association or decree, a gathering of “like-minded intentions”.
a better word for it would be pledgeorigination, to distinguish from the ability as such. there is no protection that can stop a yield, but there is every protection that can stop a claim, and thats the real way public life is organized.

maybe-warcoined

from stout, myanmar chapter · ideas · 24 mar 2026
“playing pubg on his phone” here is not an abstraction of war; rather, war is an abstraction of zaw playing pubg on his phone. war as a transcendental quest literally arrives as something already connected to all possible forms that zaw could encounter or could have encountered, regardless of what these forms were originally meant for.
there is no “innocent telegram” when the world is in a state where myanmar could possibly experience a coup. telegrams existence was always contaminated by the “maybe-war” of the world itself.

emanation, influence & imprintcoined

from caroline arni, maternal imagination · ideas · 17 mar 2026
the difference between emanation vs influence vs imprint lies in the concepts of belonging, immanence and distinguishing quality. if emanation works through energies which are the distinguishing powers of a thing that only inferiorly borrow from an original source which generates and sustains them, imprinting is a higher-order concept whereby maternal imagery actually transfers new ideas onto an equally generative subject.
emanation in a technological context simply then means that energies themselves go from being unreachable manifestations of things to both reachable and non-projectable, actually generative forms of power.

anaketicismcoined

from yvette granata, after the machine child · ideas · 28 feb 2026
the anti-electra doesnt need to arise from birth as origin, it can arise naturally from nonvolitional evolution. the anaketic drive doesnt exist for fleshly beings, who are incapable of a willful state inside the womb-matrix, yet, the womb itself can never be a prodigal return.
there is no concept of the synthetic to the anaketic, but only a mix of involutive reproductivity and evolutive unproductivity in the sense of true suspension.

metis & capital’s world-interiorcoined

from chor pharn lee, architectures of intelligence · ideas · 26 feb 2026
pharn lee argues that water is exchanged for intelligence tokens in these premises, but id argue metis is more about being allowed to experience the world-interior of capital. in a sense, intelligence is the ability to not be ecologically intelligent in these environments.
the luxury is the freedom of not being an earthly subject, which is why it can be said that the first world floats. western subjects project themselves in pods territorially as unterraformable beings, as cuts to a network-line.

knightly europe & the non-protagonistcoined

from benjamin bratton, the myth of blurope · ideas · 24 feb 2026
europe continues to be the only non-protagonist in the history of the planet. europe will not show islamic republic levels of existential terrorism, but something even far beyond this: it will literally eat the world itself, it will arrive in countries and stage don quixotian conquest over walmarts, hyperscales, google deskboards and windmills.
the “history” of europe is one where europe itself has fetishistically declared its own existential insignificance pre-emptively so that every battle is successively won only in hindsight.

ontological closurecoined

from iris carver, the telos project · ideas · 8 jan 2026
the goal with this text isnt to expand the question “can teleology want itself?” which the original poses, but to show how ontological closure can emulate a self-desiring predicational machine without collapsing into a self-recursive totality that eliminates the externally-posited differential that makes prediction meaningful (and generative).
the real solution would be one where a generative computational simulation is generative not because it causes everything but because it “marks” it for future value — essentially, that events occur determinately but that they are felt indeterminately.

the epistemic gatecoined

from eugene thacker, data made flesh · ideas · 3 apr 2026
technology alters the conditions under which possibilities themselves become available, rather than, as thacker would say, altering the informatic conditions of how bodies are encoded. hui believes that cosmology + technics produces epistemic outcomes, but epistemic gates themselves only foreclose on conditions.
“mapping” is an infotech verb. “synchronizing” is an enginetech verb. “destroying-but-producing-an-abjective-derivative” is something else entirely.

the ultra-machinecoined

from maurizio lazzarato, why war? · ideas · 1 nov 2025
the synkarian ultra-machine, a civil-influenced layered structural social compound that works as a hyperstitional vehicle for value production, merges consumer practices, corporate advertising, automized and genocidificatory lifestyle practices — compounded, holistic, linear and increasingly qualitatively limited living that is adjacent to, or otherwise a product of militarization, where the urban territory itself is compounded into a cafo-esque architectural simulation.
war is not terror or porn but purely a simulative practice when it comes to financialization empires; the death and torture is literal but its actual function is not a war of affect, but a war of regulation.

the continuation axiomcoined

from bernes, obrien, petrossian, inquiry on the future of revolution · ideas · 5 jan 2026
temporality must continue if history has ended, and history must continue if temporality has collapsed.
postmodernity may not have collapsed temporality, it may have imprinted it, and then the call for a “type” of revolution even over temporality itself actually continues.

medicamenticalitycoined

from medicamenticality, the invention of subjects in trans theory · original · 14 jan 2026
the medicinal regime produces the medical, mental and mentical (medicamental), leading to predicaments — mendicaments (medicamenticalities); the alchemical mends the invention of new chemical forces, pushing forward the engineering of productive forces, which circulate back into new forms of subjectivity.
the medicamentical phenomenon emerges in order to suggestively and selectively order in between the ontologization of alchemical and clinical reality and their ever-stronger craft, and the way in which subjectivities attempt to constitute themselves, or fight against the way the terrain constitutes them.

hysterotaxiscoined

from medicamenticality, the invention of subjects in trans theory · original · 14 jan 2026
hysterotaxis (my term for ordering ideology by-the-womb) appears almost as a fundamental operative around which to base the way in which womanhood escapes its surfacivity and allows itself to become beholden to a three dimensionality.
transwombs might themselves relativize the synthetic-biological aspect of the existing status of pregnancy, revealing the womb to be a theatre rather than a shell, a production studio rather than an organic cover.

gynophoriacoined

from medicamenticality, the invention of subjects in trans theory · original · 14 jan 2026
gynophoria — my term for the burden of the forced carrying of this social artifact of the failure for responsible womanhood or transwomens cultivation of it as a site of libidinally repressed energies.
gynophoria helps tie together affective charges, stylistically-preferential hyperobjects and aesthetic boards with ontological-theological readings of femininity in a way where no one single theorist can serve to totalize it, whilst all of them can still somehow entirely capture it.

inspensioncoined

from anne dufourmantelle, in praise of risk · counter · 2 jun 2025
anticipation is no longer anticipation about nothing the way the sartrean anxious complex works ontologically, but rather anticipation in need of something, call it maybe inspension. inspension, suspensions brother, doesnt want to hold its breath and grasp the moment in its hand the way philippe walks the high-wire; rather, inspension is about catching yourself halfway through falling on stable ground.
the contemporary subject isnt too rooted on stable ground, its rather floating in comfort, but the solution isnt to create a fearful sense of groundlessness, but to locate the ground, sometimes at the cost of immediacy.

envolutioncoined

from s. prasad, crossing the rubicon · review · 27 may 2026
in many ways, uprisings are less “revolutions” than they are “envolutions”, in that they are characterized by a mass “surrounding” of stakes, a stakes-accelerator, but also that chaos itself as “organized noise” has a particular function outside of mobilization as such.
the mechanism suggests it is supposed to perform the opposite action of a genocide culturally, to spawn latent meanings where none exist within the remnants of a political vacuum, but one that uses much the same tools of organization as a genocide would.

mimecoined

from steven shaviro, fluid futures · review · 19 mar 2026
the felt continuity of time can be separate from procession through the cultivation of “mime”, a new concept of alter time that can literalize continuity as an embedded experience of the flow of time without ever touching the depth of memory as related to times encoding, or procession as successive emergence.
things do not have to emerge to continue, succession doesnt have to indicate progress, yet it can still feel like a succession. mime is then a new mode of temporal continuity that reproduces the sensation of forward flow without relying on succession, emergence, or memory.

capitalist time unitscoined

from tung-hui hu, after exhaustion, a door · review · 9 mar 2026
afterness shapes temporal expansion and our understanding of our own continuity within capitalist time as especially related to the viewing of reels and mass processed content. continuity is messed with when the sounds, textures and ideas of the world we experience move more rapidly than our ability to “conquer” them internally.
you cannot be passionate about reels as time blocks under capital in the same way you can be about movies or works, precisely because as technical models they dont map the same rhythmic components or “forms of continuity” present elsewhere.

self-spectatorship in sleepcoined

from tung-hui hu, after exhaustion, a door · review · 9 mar 2026
self-spectatorship in sleep could be framed as self-discovery if the reflective act can only be mediated through a second half perspective, as in if cultural expectations mutated so much as to only allow contemplation if it is first processed by external viewership, something that has so far never existed in a widespread manner save for a few rare online cases.

the ferocity of unknowingcoined

from skvortsova & nakhshunov, paradoxes of homosexual desire · review · 29 dec 2025
at the same time ideology in its essential form takes the head of an institution as its populist rhetorical device, it exercises a type of ferocity of the unknowing: essentially, that popular movements are subsumed by rhetoric that is entirely indispensable to most of the actual cognitive spheres or deeply ruminated-upon arguments by the practitioners of a certain ideological movement.
narratives are captured, formulated and expressed at will by any number of operatives at one or the other moment, and the political-bureaucratic machine allows the ferocity of unknowing, or the naive brutality — perhaps framed as “brutivety” — to establish and take root in the world regardless of actually held elite belief systems.

ecstatic thingnesscoined

from skvortsova & nakhshunov, paradoxes of homosexual desire · review · 29 dec 2025
a much more physical theory of fascism is that the fascist carries with him the cleansing of attachment signals in general as a totality, not just affective ones. the fascist machine isnt an assemblage, its the machine as its own stereotype: it is the way in which we already and historically interpreted and sinned against inorganic nature, the way we constitute the hidden imaginative corporeality of a rock or block of ground.
the fascist extradies and slowly banishes everything, not seeking nirvana nor annihilation but ever higher states of ecstatic thingness — the mode of being of an object, the heightened sense of the inertia of the thing, where inertia impedes sensation as affect but enables sensation as motion.

the naturalization of naturalizationcoined

from derrick jensen, endgame · review · 15 jun 2026
the issue here is one of the naturalization of naturalization, or more specifically, not the idea that whatever appears as natural already has the claim to be itself on top of or against whatever it combats, but that whatever wants to exist — even if it goes against the entire logic of what already exists — actually gets the guarantee that its logic will already be prioritized existentially before any claims can be made about its worth.

payment with no settlementcoined

from mackay, simulation, exercise, operations · counter · 8 dec 2025
the transaction is infinite, but the transformation — the social inscription of value — is absent. this is how you get a payment with no settlement, a gamespace with no outside. its not that the world is too full and needs something to connect it to everything on the outside; its actually kind of very empty, desperately waiting for that outside thing to come in and confirm that the checkout matters, not that the checkout has happened.
thats what simulating transfers for so long does to you: it destabilizes the matrix of values value, not of value, because the value stays exactly where it needs to be to keep being value.

the science of pragmatic-manipulationcoined

from mackay, simulation, exercise, operations · counter · 8 dec 2025
there will be a science of pragmatic-manipulation, several degrees abstracted both in its own epistemic consistency and in the actual advice for how to train models to convince npcs. the resistance will have to run its own simulation models, ones that simulate the inner bureaucracies procedures in very much the same structure, so they can develop the informational games to even pose a threat.

the court intellectualcoined

from cesarale & pasquinelli, the algorithm and the antichrist · review · 22 jun 2026
the real answer to what thiel actually is, outside of what the article wants to present him as, is that hes closer to something that existed historically but which modern people often forget: the court intellectual. yet, at the same time, it is natural that people forget this archetype, precisely because this very archetype shouldnt naturally exist in this world.
in that sense, you actually see a return of archetypes that are being propagated by the logic of the algorithm itself, propped up to serve as something more.

blood languagecoined

from adam greenfield, lifehouse · review · 15 may 2026
greenfields incessant squabbling about basic health info does accidentally produce something useful: it lets us know how screwed we are on a political level, that the very consideration of basic survival circumstances becomes a resource rather than an outcome or obstacle.
the only eschatological element in greenfields unaesthetic realistic imagery is this exact aspect, that hes speaking in blood language, the assumption that below your wheels bodies are already frozen, and that the lifehouse itself may not exist.

the dark carnivalcoined

from zach gibson, a new look at rabelais and his world · review · 6 may 2026
ivan and vladimir are the lofty and low, the wise and stupid, but their carnival is not a liberatory one, because this condition doesnt liberate actual economic differences, it only targets the virtues and ambitions of characters within a fixed economic zone. this indicates a dark carnival, a function where the concept of the carnival itself becomes entirely divorced from its own image but still retains its operations.
the deflation of the cows is the festival ending and can only be a mark of modernity; only their persistence can be a symbol of an alternate logic to modernity.

elite-seeded, mass-mediatedcoined

from tony chamas, genealogy of wokeism · review · 20 jun 2026
the culture war is not simply intra-elite but rather a mechanism that is elite-seeded but mass-mediated: a cultural simulacrum originally carried over by elite masses but quickly picked up by an increasingly reactionary and bored urban middle class that invokes the culture war in the dead image of the class war, partially because the class itself has overcome its class position, or rather stagnated, rather than overcoming the material conditions of things.

wagering abstractionscoined

from lukas likavcan, comparative planetology · review · 26 oct 2025
to wager abstractions means to constantly reconsider the boundaries of technology outside of its functional premises. the meta-consideration of abstractions follows not the science of the instrument but the science of possibility itself: calculating possible interactions and trying to form an inner harmony takes precedent over the invention of all possible combinations between cybernetic constructs and physical constructs.
abstractions are self-formable through the logics of their ontogenetics, meaning the politics is located in the tension between function and consideration, not insight and origination.

artifactal stepscoined

from laura tripaldi, substrates unbound · review · 3 jan 2026
tripaldi doesnt put into consideration the difference between artifactal steps — fabricated components, protocols, electrodes, stimulation algorithms — and non-artifactal determinants — cellular self-organization, developmental priors, evolutionary constraints, culture drift. a step doesnt have to become a determinant; alchemy has already made that very clear.
material embodiment itself may be underrated because of its discoverability, but a lot of the engineering steps may never exist as artifacts, yet a lot of the non-artifactal consequences of non-engineered steps may be non-trivial to the actual sequence.

ghost-tactilitycoined

from shane denson, post-cinematic bodies · reading · 8 sep 2026
imagine if every human body had actual third person mode, like in a video game. this would alienate the body from its own experience of its own senses. then imagine a “glitch” where sometimes the vision of the body starts to interfere with our own embodiment and we lose, say, the ability to feel pain temporarily, or start to feel the environment around the spectators eyes as if it was ghost-tactility.
the question is: when did the glitch arrive — in the bodys ability to go spectator mode, in its assumed inability to, in our ability to make spectator mode a reality, in the phantom-limb of the spectator, or in the algorithm that turns small phenomenal experiences into intentional microcalibrations?