Essays · Plate I
Essays
Essays from The Schematism, newest first. Each one first arrived by email through The Schematism on Substack; this is its permanent home.
The Art of Nature
There used to be more bugs on the windshield
Looking for Durée
Why time doesn’t flow—we’re the ones that move
Circular Error
Why the ideas we build on are the ones that are almost right
Babel Was a Clue
Reading an AI encyclical for the small signal of a large, slow change
La Selva Oscura
Reoccupying Middle Age
Cosmological Adventure
Wayfinding in the Divergence Machine
De-Dramatizing the Digital
In which AI becomes as interesting as your refrigerator