Why The Universe Is Not Your Therapist
On the modern demand that reality validate our emotional architecture.
Read pageCity of Dis archive
Dispatches
Short essays, polemics, notes and regrettably necessary corrections of popular nonsense from the lit perimeter of the abyss.
Meaning and method
Short pieces on emotional architecture, evidence and special exemption lanes.
Against Sacred Special Pleading
One standard of evidence. One universe. No private exemption lane for doctrines that become shy under examination.
Read pageThe Comfort Industry
On metaphysical products designed to convert terror into obedience and mystery into subscription revenue.
Read pagePrayer as a truth detector
If the method works only when failure can be redescribed as success, it is not a method. It is insulation.
Read pageHell, design and scripture
Compact corrections for recurring theological arguments.
Infinite punishment, finite theatre
The moral obscenity of eternal torment, carefully wrapped in devotional vocabulary.
Read pageBad design is still evidence
Retinas, parasites, cancers, extinction, and the awkward theology of a designer who appears to subcontract to indifference.
Read pageThe Bible is not a magic hyperlink
Citing a verse is not an argument unless the authority, context, transmission, genre, and relevance of the text have already been established.
Read pageExtraordinary claims and ordinary excuses
Testimony, private feeling, and mishandled probability cannot bear the weight of cosmic monarchy.
Read pageRapture, Tribulation and the Manufacture of Prophecy
Scattered biblical texts, historical anxieties and the administrative genius of prophecy charts assembled into a modern end-times system.
Read pageMedia and experiments
Procedural objects and source code from the lit perimeter.
Rotating 4D Shining Cube
A four-dimensional hypercube projected into three dimensions, procedurally animated in MATLAB, with its source available to download.
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