MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

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  • Ulysses

    So Ulysses finally comes rowing back into Ithaca. Long trip, longer than advertised, and the shoreline isn’t olive trees anymore — its server racks humming, whispering, belching out cloud exhaust. The suitors have multiplied in his absence, and none of them are men. They’re LLMs. Not one or two scribblers competing for Penelope’s attention, but…

  • The Saint Of Scrap

    Watching Andor again and the architecture is unmistakable Dumas, Balzac even Zola. What we have stumbled onto is a masterpiece of literary archaeology: Gilroy took the moldering corpse of 19th-century French literature, jacked it full of Imperial credits and hyperdrive fuel, and reanimated it as the most politically sophisticated piece of science fiction television ever…

  • Poker, Chess, Bridge, and Go

    Everyone talks about the game as if there’s only one. But there are at least four. Four players. Four strategies. Four clocks. All layered over the same world like mismatched transparencies. The United States deals in poker—fast, brash, bluff-heavy. It thrives on leverage, spectacle, and calculated risk. Winning isn’t about holding the best hand—it’s about…

  • Minecraft

    I went to see Minecraft and couldn’t help noticing a pattern in recent blockbusters—from Mario Bros. and Everything Everywhere to Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, and The Batman: every character is hustling, struggling, or just scraping by. It signals how economic precarity has been normalized in American storytelling—and not just in dramas or indie films, where you’d expect…

  • Abundance

    Abundance is just trickle-down economics in Patagonia fleece and Allbirds—cozy, sustainable vibes while selling Reaganomics with a Substack subscription, still catering to the top but with a personal essay explaining why the same old supply-side stuff is actually good for everyone. This late I’m the game pitching a deck of faux YIMBY-ism for tax cuts—full…

  • Crypto Strategic Reserve: A Chronicle of Hybrid Collapse

    Act I:The Golden Mirage The U.S. Empire, armored in Fordist steel and atomic swagger, once anchored the global economy to a sacred lie: the dollar as gold’s Siamese twin. Bretton Woods was less a financial system than a state religion—fixed rates, convertible faith, the handshake of empires. But by 1971, Nixon, that grandmaster of realpolitik,…

  • Butler

    You wake up. Reach for the phone. Thumb scrolls before brain boots. Load me up, Jack. Infinite feeds, infinite loops. A dopamine drip straight to the veins, a carnival of blinking lights. You don’t even know what’re looking at. Doesn’t matter. The Machine knows. The Machine feeds.   And the screen hums like a cicada…

  • The Efficiency Con

    A scam with a side of grift-hustle, wrapped in a con stuffed inside a Ponzi-tier pyramid of multi-level marketing—served with a garnish of oligarch delusion. A bureaucracy exists to track things until the act of tracking becomes its own justification. Enter Elon Musk, who takes this dysfunction to the next level: tracking how you track…

  • Symbolic Warfare

    “Trout Mask Replica” stands as one of the most radical deconstructions of American music ever recorded. Released in 1969 on Frank Zappa’s Straight Records label, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band created a sonic landscape that defied every conventional notion of rhythm, harmony, and structure. Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) orchestrated a work that simultaneously…

  • The Poppy Index

    Opium is a bureaucracy of the flesh. A ledger. A meticulous clerk with a pen of black tar ink, scratching endless entries into the neural book. It does not create—it records. A meticulous hand. A totalitarian librarian, bent over his desk, stamping “APPROVED” on each incoming sensory impression, filing away the vast detritus of human…