Series – Tools
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Ashes and (star)dust: Tools of Valuation
Author’s Note This post continues the Tools series—but calling it a post almost feels dishonest. It is a constellation stitched from everything I have ever believed about structure, collapse, and… Read more.
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The Architecture of Amnesia: Tools of the Sterile City
Author’s Note Open a wallpaper gallery and Venice greets you in improbable pastels, each façade pocked by salt, each balcony crooked under centuries of hanging laundry. We intuit the labor… Read more.
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Crown and Rod: Accoutrement of Authority
Author’s Note This post continues the Tools series—but at this point, pretending that tools are neutral feels willfully naïve. Authority is a tool. So is hierarchy. So is the language… Read more.
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Ruler of Normalcy: The Baseline of Acceptance
Author’s Note This article continues our exploration of humanity’s tools—only this time, we’re not reaching for hammers, code, or a mirror. We’re reaching for the ruler. Not the literal kind,… Read more.
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Bindings at the Threshold: Anchors of Choice
Author’s Note This essay continues my exploration of humanity’s tools, which began with Children of Hephaestus. That piece explored the external instruments we craft—hammers, networks, algorithms—and the way they amplify… Read more.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Implements of Control
The first fracture is always gentle enough to ignore. Your partner “forgets” your birthday but bristles when you mention it. A back‑handed joke lands, hard, then ricochets into “Lighten up—it was… Read more.
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Children of Hephaestus
Author’s Note With most of my posts, we’ve been unearthing the roots of the world we inhabit—tracing the systems beneath society, seeing not just what they are but why they were placed, and what… Read more.
