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Shadowline

Shadowline

On the verge of history’s first wave of globalization, Victorian imperialists venturing into foreign and undiscovered countries had to maintain an ever-deeper connection to the ways of the motherland. The temptations of the opium to wash away the grueling and the...
The Dark Wilderness of the Future

The Dark Wilderness of the Future

One of the astonishing aspects of the work of Joseph Conrad is that he writes with such awareness of both inward dialogue and discourse between people, and by extension, of towns and civilization, with such familiarity that they convey a certain civility and...
The Sacreligious Infinitude of Bitcoin

The Sacreligious Infinitude of Bitcoin

“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression, and with all this yet to die.” -Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death There is a joy in running in...
My Own Private Idaho: Crypto Postmodernism

My Own Private Idaho: Crypto Postmodernism

After ten years of observation, trading and entrepreneurship, more and more, crypto appears to be most highly concerned to goal seek for the suppression of cognitive space between creator and user, between producer and buyer, to forever prevent the “I” of the...