I mostly write about the philosophy of intelligence at the intersection of AI, economics, and the post-Kantian transcendental tradition (think Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Lou Salomé, Sabina Spielrein, Popper, the Austrian economists, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, Nick Land, Sadie Plant, and the Ccru).

The driving motive of Architechtonics is twofold. Firstly, much of academic philosophy is in such a sclerotic state of terminal decline that it has for some time now been stifling genuine philosophical thought. Not unlike Big Pharma, it has become what I call Big Philo. This largely amounts to reverential neoscholastic commentaries, not on Aristotle and the Bible, but on a polytheistic pantheon of quasi-Franco-German gods (with names like Hegel and Foucault). Or else it devolves into pale imitations of the hard sciences that have discovered little more than their own science envy. Secondly, cyberspace offers a potential glitch in the matrix or escape route for, not a “Dark Enlightenment,” but a Dark Academia. Much as the net has let a thousand alternative media networks and social movements bloom that are now bombarding the headquarters of the legacy media and social elites, so might it provide a shadowzone for maximum philosophical experimentation.

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