PHILOSOPHY
A path to realization
Philosophy has been a backdrop and a foundation. Involved in every part of it, it afforded the opportunity for a self constituted path, gracefully including different precious people, places, and cultures.
Shared here are the fruits of my thinking & writing, as a trained philosopher. My goal is to provide spriglets of wisdom that you could use. Essays, poems, simple one liners are herein. Perhaps one day it will culminate in a body of work to print, old school style. Either way, this is dedicated to you, the dear, thoughtful, caring reader. It comes from a humble man after much reflection, and having loved & lived intensely.
INVESTIGATIONS
A broad-view essay tracing how identity became the organising principle of political life, from the 1990s culture wars to the present day.
Interactive maps and timelines of what lies beneath Pennsylvania — coal permits, abandoned mine fires, and unconventional shale wells, drawn from state registry data.
Seventy-three ideas from seven fields of complex-systems science, opened out into a working proposition that a civilisation able to describe its own effects is one able to limit them.
4D Hilbert curves and Klein bottles explored through the lens of philosophy of mathematics — visualising eternity, infinity, and the monosemantic idea that all symbols can be part of one formula.
A research atlas of Isocratic Ownership-Control Equilibrium — measuring the gap between who owns organisations and who actually controls them, through the Ownership-Control Divergence Index and an open, provisional ontology.
ESTABLISHED 21 March 1995 § alkhemy.com