Essay · 2026
The Republic and the American Present
In place of philosopher-kings they built a machine.
6,607 words · 29 min read
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Grouped by practice — newest within each. Generative works also feature in the rotation above.
Generative · Real-Time
7 worksSeven Layers
7 worksSeven Layers gives form to the invisible pillars of the internet — the patient machinery that names things, routes them, certifies identities, measures distance, settles money, carries anonymous voices, and listens for unwanted callers, every second of every day. Continuous sound and light, in real time. Audio and composition still evolving.
What Remains
1 workOn the fragility of memory, individual and collective. We are made of what we remember, and we remember almost nothing; a community keeps less still — only the history it chooses to preserve. The works carry that fragility outward, from the single mind to the commons, through the ways the past is lost to erosion, distorted in the telling, and hardened into law. More to come.
Hidden Layers
3 worksHidden Layers gives form to the interior of a learning machine — the place, ordinarily sealed, where a system is shown examples, is wrong, is corrected, and by degrees comes to know. Each work trains a real network in the open and renders the learning itself: the hours of becoming, the settling into fluency, and the quiet that follows. Continuous image and sound, in real time. More to come.