Points of Failure and the Trajectory of Failure: Federico Finchelstein and the Market Form of Contemporary Scholarship Prefatory Note on Method This essay does not adjudicate Federico Finchelstein's claims about fascism as true or false. It reads his five books as a specimen — a single, unusually legible sample
Closing the arc of The Mirror of Absence and The Empty Mirror. String theory and the multiverse are not propositions. They are not testable hypotheses that happen, for now, to lie beyond reach. They are the keystone of a pyramid — the capstone on which the whole structure bears down and
On the Unfalsifiable Asymptote, the Symbolic Purge of Heterodoxy, the Refusal of Grothendieck and Perelman, and Why the Field Cannot Relinquish the Social Fact Abstract Theotics IV established that the social fact is the specular crystallization of collective desire, constituted from absence rather than from correspondence to the real, and
On the Social Fact as the Mirror of Collective Desire, the Symbolic Purge of David Bohm, and the Reoccupation–Inheritance Undecidability Abstract This paper formalizes a single structural claim and then tests it against the most resistant possible case—the field of mathematical physics, which advertises itself as the discipline
Following De Concilio Vacui (I) and De Duabus Portis (II). Documentation in the MLA style; the equations have been left in the rooms where they live, and the doors to those rooms stand, as ever, ajar. The breath Begin, as every cosmogony and every proof begins, with a breath drawn
On the Two Doors, the Universe's Empty-Set Axiom, and Creation as Error-Handling A working paper continuing E044 (The Council of the Void) and E039 (A Whim from the Get-Go). No equations were used; the practitioners' escrows are safe. Prologue: a threshold restated E044 closed
On the Foundations Crisis as Political Theology, and Why the Empty Set Is a Conciliar Decree A working paper in dialogue with E039, "A Whim from the Get-Go." I. The door, again E039 left a door ajar and asked us to look through it. Open it, and
Being the Third and Final Day of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., in Which He Visits a Museum, Discovers the Hidden Geometry of Power in the Trick of Perspective, and Reconstructs—in Seven Movements, Delivered to No One, Before a Painting of a City With No
Being the Continuation of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., in Which He Quits the Company of the Possessed for the Company of the Knowing, Overhears Three Professors of Columbia University Lament the Age While Maintaining It, Recalls the Cranks and Forgeries of His Own Century, and
Being a True and Faithful Account of the Second Sojourn of Alfred North Whitehead, O.M., Sometime Fellow of Trinity College and Professor at Harvard, Among the Possessed of the City of New York; in Which He Encounters a Financier, a Prophet, and a Company of Coders, and Declines, With
A Treatise on the Comedy of Generational Misrecognition, Composed with All Possible Seriousness The comic is "something mechanical encrusted upon the living." — so Bergson tells us, and we shall take him with absolute literalness, because the spectacle before us is precisely a living thing — a generation, several generations,
Selective Permeability from the Cell to the Civilization, and the Empty Sector Beneath Both A membrane is a verb pretending to be a noun. It looks like a wall — a thing, a boundary, a fact you could photograph. It is actually a labor, a wage paid every second against the