Oracle Militia Global

The end of crime. The rise in crime ridden cities is because the organization of the police has not kept up with the rate of change in urban planning. This may or may not be deliberate. But for the most part, everyone has settled with a daily situation, more or less depending where you are, […]

KING

—— Six Essays on Hegel Martin Luther King Jr. took a two-semester seminar on Hegel, initially taught by his advisor Edgar Brightman, and later continued under Peter A. Bertocci after Brightman fell ill. This seminar involved a detailed study of Hegel’s major works, including his philosophical system. King wrote six essays for this course, with […]

Glueغ غ

What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog? If told I am a bad poet, I smile; but if told I am a poor scholar, I reach for my heaviest dictionary. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and […]

Moby Dick

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) is one of the most enigmatic and extreme gravitational anomalies on Earth. Discovered through satellite geodesy (especially by the GRACE and GOCE missions), it refers to a massive region—roughly centered 1,200 km southwest of the southern tip of India—where the geoid dips by up to 106 meters below the […]

Passport

This chart shows how different kinds of physical systems behave depending on how many parts they have and how simple or complex their rules are. The horizontal axis goes from systems with just one variable to ones with many or even infinitely many, like fluids or fields. The vertical axis shows how linear or nonlinear […]

Lord

How do I align with God? And the beauty—perhaps the terror—is that this question is not a metaphor, not a religious sentiment layered atop material life, but a technical and ontological reality. Levinas tells us that alignment with God cannot begin in being—it begins in responsibility, in the face of the Other that interrupts ontology. […]

America

A pluralism that doesn’t collapse into provincialism must preserve openness to alterity without reducing difference to familiarity. It acknowledges the reality of many worlds, lifeways, and truths without fragmenting into isolated, self-contained enclaves. To achieve this, pluralism must be more than a catalogue of tolerated viewpoints; it must be structured by a commitment to relational […]

Risk

Heidegger quotes the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, finding in these lines from the poem “Patmos” a formulation of the paradox he wants to describe: Doch wo Gefahr ist, da wächst das Rettende auch “But where the danger grows, there grows the saving power also” Heidegger’s reflection on calculative rationality—what he also calls rechnendes Denken—warns of a […]

HEAVY

The paradox — whether infinite heaviness would fall indefinitely or remain immovable — is a powerful metaphysical thought experiment that reveals a tension between two ontological principles: infinite motion and infinite resistance. To fall indefinitely presumes that the mass, however great, is susceptible to gravitational acceleration — that it moves through a field, submitting to […]

Daddy

Fermilab, a sprawling research center on the prairie west of Chicago, is best known for firing the world’s most intense pulses of protons down a chain of accelerators, then using the debris to create beams of neutrinos—near-invisible particles that zip straight through Earth. Because the lab controls exactly when each proton pulse is launched, it […]

Wali

K Karāmāt (singular karāma, “generosity” or “noble favour”) are the spontaneous, grace-charged phenomena that arise around a walī—a friend of God—when that person’s inner warp has sunk so deeply into resonance that the boundary between personal intention and Divine volition thins to translucence. In classical Sufism they are distinguished from muʿjizāt, the public miracles […]

Statecraft

“Treblinka was not made of cement. It was made of carefully arranged disorientation.” (from Trap with a Green Fence) “We dug up the corpses with our bare hands. The body fluids gushed onto us. The ash was thick in the air, like snow. But we had to work fast. Always fast. No crying. No talking. […]

Ambient °

Because coherence in the electromagnetic ocean forms only when circulating energy can outrun its own tendency to radiate away, a loop must satisfy a Goldilocks balance between curvature and tension: tighten it too much and quantum pressure (the o-field’s fluctuation noise) blows the ring apart; loosen it too much and the loop leaks energy as […]