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Due Diligence
On the Emerging Architecture of Algorithmic Control
Nov 8 • 
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Kabbalah System Theory
Foundations of a postmodern cybernetics
Nov 7 • 
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Anticipatory Governance
Where are we, and where are we going?
Nov 5 • 
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The Meaning of the 20th Century
A conversation across time.
Nov 4 • 
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An Integral Theory
The two most recent essays trace how a philosophical idea from the 1600s became the operating system for global coordination — operating simultaneously…
Nov 3 • 
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October 2025

Second-Order Cybernetics
The internalisation of ethical monism
Oct 31 • 
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Ethica
In the spring of 2000, the Earth Charter was launched at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
Oct 30 • 
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Governance by Clearance
Accountable for Nothing but in Charge of Everything
Oct 29 • 
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The Financialisation of Compliance
Imagine your payment for a product doesn’t go through until a third party confirms the item meets certain criteria — carbon footprint, ‘ethical…
Oct 23 • 
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Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
How carbon-backed CBDCs will come to be
Oct 21 • 
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The Red Star
The Bank for International Settlements’ innovation projects look like financial infrastructure.
Oct 17 • 
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A Constitutional Void
In 2025, three US policy shifts quietly transformed government into an adaptive governance engine.
Oct 16 • 
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