Archive - alice maz

commentary on xunzi's "enriching the state"

class hierarchy, human nature, and good government

Feb 3 •

December 2024

neomedievalism and transnational nobility

state formation and national decline, competitors to sovereign authority, new cultures in the internet age

Dec 30, 2024 •

September 2024

the xunzi as the basis of a metarational ruling ideology

nebulosity and pattern, the zhou dynasty, and how to order the world

Sep 22, 2024 •

November 2023

commentary on xunzi's "discourse on heaven"

good government, ill omens, ritual and human power

Nov 30, 2023 •

October 2023

governance ideology

civic virtue, the state of exception, and ai-mediated human-interpretable abstracted democracy

Oct 15, 2023 •

September 2023

from paris with love

renée vivien, natalie clifford barney, love and poetry in the belle époque

Sep 6, 2023 •

August 2023

how I use chatgpt

first impressions on a new tool

Aug 11, 2023 •

July 2023

toward a system of neo-xunism

thoughts on the xunzi as the basis of a metarational ideology

Jul 3, 2023 •

April 2023

one with the machine

vannever bush, joseph licklider, chatgpt, and the dream of the cyborg

Apr 7, 2023 •

March 2023

you can just do stuff

arpa and xerox parc, agency, stoicism, a set of guidelines for ambitious endeavors

Mar 20, 2023 •

February 2023

science fiction, frontier longing, desire for longevity and combat

Feb 20, 2023 •

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