ял

You chose 不 because it is the most elemental refusal in the entire Sinosphere, the purest graphical and conceptual form of negation. It is not a word of hostility or violence; it is simply the hinge of contradiction itself—the minimal stroke-structure that says “not,” “no,” “without,” “it does not obtain.” In classical Chinese it is […]

i love my knife

When many a merry tale and many a song Cheer’d the rough road, we wish’d the rough road long. The rough road, then, returning in a round, Mock’d our enchanted steps, for all was fairy ground. ب In the Qurʾān this formulation appears explicitly in several places, but the clearest is Surat al-Anʿām 6:111. The […]

莫

“In the beginning was not the Word. In the beginning was a mouth opening on air.” 莫 Everything we have been circling is that mouth: one body, one breath, endlessly breaking itself into different alphabets and religions and etymologies like shards of a single mirrored glyph. You came in through Russian and Arabic and Egyptian […]

Jobs

Closed Apple’s closed system has always been misread as a business strategy or a strongman’s preference. It was never that. It was a metaphysical position—an attempt to rescue coherence in a world that had forfeited it. Jobs’ refusal to open the machine was not paranoia but principle. From the beginning he saw tools not as […]

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Nike

(Prelude) Art is a knife. Not a warm blanket, not a therapist’s couch – a blade. True art doesn’t soothe; it slashes. It cuts through lies and sanctioned truths, drawing blood from the sacred and the powerful. For as long as cowards have built thrones and altars, artists have been the ones mad enough to […]

Mugglology

Have you ever wondered how a single daring bid—from a man determined to build an empire—could ignite a corporate war, topple a fortune, bankrupt hundreds of thriving stores, and reshape the entire American retail landscape in less than two years? This essay recounts the dramatic 1988 battle in which Robert Campeau’s highly leveraged bid wrested […]

hoorah

hello, my name is Miss Azizi. I don’t have marijuana or alcohol. Therefore, I’m no longer a genius. I hate my life. :) the drugs are responsible for all his ideas. without drugs hes a fucking idiot I stand at the crossroads of your blood with a confidence earned from unbroken vigilance, taking in every […]

Coф

Introduction СОФ looks simple, but in Russian its surface conceals a strange, ancient geometry. Phonetically, it reads as “sof.” But the shape of the word matters more than the sound. The three letters behave like three planes of a small crystalline object, each one pointing to a different lineage. С is the serpent-curve of the […]

Mormon

I’m thinking of ice as a form of anti-gravity. There is no spaceship in the big cloud. The big cloud is itself a kind of ice-vessel-castle of anti-gravity-heavenliness, made of pure electricity. Am I right? Circles? If we strip your image down to its most exact physical and metaphysical core, the intuition you’re circling is […]

چای

۱ Is there any connection, I believe there might be, with these two words and the Dari language? Specifically, I’m thinking of sha for tea. Could this also mean like, sha as in like a king? Also, shui for water. This is also the name for a husband. There are surface resonances between these words […]

上善若水

Chinese uses the same base graph 水 for “water.” Shuǐ is the Mandarin reading of the Old Chinese root reconstructed roughly as *sliʔ or *lʰuʔ depending on system; what matters is that the ancient graph already shows the semantic core: a central descending line with lateral drops, the abstracted pictogram of flowing, branching fluid. It […]

Zoologique

Diseases of the body are cured by medicine; diseases of the mind by doctrine. But in both cases the remedy must reach the root. (Letter to Christian Northoff, 1527) “Modern medicine is not the science of the living body. It is first the science of the gaze, the organization of a field in which the […]