Debating in A Vacuum
“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.”
Theory
Thoughts on applied semiotics and hermeneutics.
The Einstein Intersection
Myths can and will control us… unless we study how myths work.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Puzzling over cultural fragments that we cannot immediately comprehend…"
The Man with Six Senses
"We are surrounded by imperceptible, patterned forces that subtly guide our behavior…"
Embassytown
"The Ariekei's discovery of the myriad possibilities of signifier/signified connections proves catastrophic."
Solaris
"Is true understanding even possible? What does understanding imply?"
Odd John
"He devised strange shapes which epitomized for him the tragedy of Homo sapiens, and the promise of his own kind."
Friday
"Durned if I didn’t begin to find connections!"
The Glass Bead Game
The game is a difficult and rewarding "exercise in deconstruction and decoding, pattern recognition, and patterning."
The Sweetest Hangover
“If there’s a cure for this, I don’t want it!"
Code-X (Intro)
What are the implicit assumptions (or “mythologies”) we’ve absorbed?
Challenging the World
Comic juxtapositions, flaring brilliances, and no less heartbreaking impossibilities.
Cryptanalysis
Is applied semiotics really like cryptanalysis?
Icon Game
Do statues of despots will their own decapitation?